‘Okay. Then… I can talk. Ask me something.’ ‘Okay.’ He laughs shakily in my ear. ‘Why is your heart racing Tris?’ I cringe and say, ‘Well, I… I barely know you. I barely know you...

I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

I’ll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge,” I say. “To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don’t want it.” – Tris

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I can’t imagine it’s easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air...

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Hay una cosa que he sabido desde pequeño: que la vida nos hace daño a todos sin que podamos evitarlo. Pero ahora estoy aprendiendo algo nuevo: que podemos sanarnos. Sanarnos los unos a los otros.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once – allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time...

Using pain to relieve pain. Doesn’t make much sense.

You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can’t, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

I open my eyes and for the first time stare openly at my own reflection. My heart rate picks up as I do, like I am breaking the rules and will be scolded for it....

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I’ll be betraying someone.

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

What do you think they’re going to do to us when they find us guilty?” she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.”Honestly?””Does now seem like the time for honesty?”I look at her...

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It’s always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I’ve experienced has left...

I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is...

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I...

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe...

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don’t want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I’ve been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am...

Resisting is worth doing.

‘Yeah, well,’ I say, ‘I left Abnegation because I wasn’t selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.’ ‘That’s not entirely true.’ He smiles at me. ‘That girl who let someone throw knives...

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and...

I don’t understand’, I say,’why they care what I think, as long as I’m acting how they want me to.”You’re acting how they want you to now’, he says,’but what happens when your Abnegation-wired brain...

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There’s nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but...

But a person can only keep reality – and anger – at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.

Aquellos que desean el poder,y lo consiguen,viven con el miedo a perderlo

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks.I don’t want to lose him, another part argues.I don’t know which part to believe.

—Sí, a veces la vida es un asco —responde ella—, pero ,sabes por qué la aguanto? Arqueo las cejas. Ella también las arquea, imitándome. —Por los momentos que no son un asco —explica—. El truco...