Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can’t be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn’t make much sense.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Can I be forgiven for all I’ve done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

Just after my mother died, I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming...

But then he stops at the door frame and says, It’s 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I’ve...

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff,” says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. “Well, half of half of our faction.””In some circles they call...

But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. […] I’m too old...

Peace is restrained.

He descubierto que las personas no son más que una capa tras otra de secretos. Crees que las conoces, que las entiendes, pero sus motivos siempre permanecen ocultos, enterrados en sus corazones.Nunca conocerás a nadie,...

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin...

I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never...

Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

If he is a coward, it isn’t because he doesn’t enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.

Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. I’ve seen it. It’s fascinating.” He releases me but doesn’t pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. “Sometimes I just…want to see it again....

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Change, like healing, takes time.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

Some of my anger has faded, but it isn’t hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her....

Así funciona el amor cuando es de verdad: te convierte en algo mejor, en más de lo que creías poder llegar a ser.

The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless.” Max smiles. “In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense...

And everyone saw me. Tobias saw me.I hear footsteps. Tobias marches toward me and wrenches me to my feet.”What the hell was that, Stiff?””I…” My breath comes in a hiccup. “I didn’t-“”Get yourself together! This...

I will become my undoing if I become my obsession” -excerpt from Abnegation manifesto

I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed...

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still broken.

I can’t leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.

…something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

I can pretend to be brave, but I’m not

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.