That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull...

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

I have something I need to tell you,” he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. “I might be in love with you.” He smiles a...

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.

I wonder if that fear still creeps up on her now though she worked so hard to face it—I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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

If you die, I die with you.

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 apart around me. But now...

‘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...

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

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

God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see…I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me–better.

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 whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I...

‘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...

My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I...

Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.

When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.

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...

‘Can you be a girl for a few seconds?’ ‘I’m always a girl’ I frown. ‘You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl’ I twirl my hair around my finger. ‘Kay.’

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?’A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. ‘Only … partially

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn’t have this guilt – the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and...

no wonder you left.”Yeah,” i say, rolling my eyes. ” It was just because of the food.

I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

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

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

Sorry, am I being rude?” she asks.”I’m used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

Everything has changed and it won’t stop changing anytime soon.

I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his neck to the small of his back and put it under his shirt....

Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay...

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

Of course.” He winks at me.

Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante

The problem will never be diversity, the challenging of tradition or the one person that questions the way life should be. The person that shows the world that this is wrong, there is a perspective...

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...

If she’s in pain now she doesn’t show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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...

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

There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.

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

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...

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.

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

Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand,...

What is wrong with you?’ I shake my head. ‘Pull it together.’ And that’s what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at...

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...

The ability to think isn’t exclusive to erudite