I love you” I say.”I love you, too” he says. “I’ll see you soon.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

… if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.” – Zoe

I think it’s important to protect people. To stand up for people […] That’s what courage is. Not… hurting people for no reason.” – Al

My mother wasn’t a fool,” I say. “She just understood something you didn’t. That it’s not sacrifice if it’s someone else’s life you’re giving away, it’s just evil.”I back up another step and say, “She...

It’s not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Esa es mi chica, dura cómo una bola de algodón

I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I’ve done, but I’m sure my list would never be complete. I also don’t believe that whatever comes after...

I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s getting more difficult to be wise. – He says,laughing into my ear.I smile at him. – I...

Moths,” repeats Will. “You’re afraid of moths?” “Not just a cloud of moths,” she says, “like…a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and…” She shudders and shakes her head.”Terrifying,” Will says with...

Psyche you out?” I repeat. “I’m your FRIEND. I wouldn’t do that.” He doesn’t say anything. I can tell he doesn’t believe me-not quite.

Who cares about everyone? What about me?

We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring the skills to force the bad out of our world so that the good can prosper and...

I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can’t be forgiveness – if...

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I don’t know why, but his reaction disappoints me.

They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

The ability to think isn’t exclusive to erudite

Yeah ’cause throwing knives at a girk is totally Going to get her to like you. #Tobiaslogic

The person you became with her is worth being.

maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Caleb,’ I say. ‘I love you.

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart.

It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will...

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

I’m not abnegation, I’m not dauntless, I am Divergent

Wait a second,” Four says. I turn toward him, wondering which version of Four I’ll see now-the one who scolds me, or the one who climbs Ferris wheels with me. He smiles a little, but...

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don’t even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

I might be in love with you.” He smiles a little. “I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.

Thank you for your honesty,” Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words “Thank you for your honesty” at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins...

I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson...

I guess we know who got the good genes.”I laugh at the expression on Caleb’s face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.