You’re the one who has to live whit your choice” she says.”Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

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

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

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...

‘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 happened. It was awful. You aren’t perfect. That’s all there is. Don’t confuse your grief with guilt.”We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes,...

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.

‘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 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...

The ability to think isn’t exclusive to erudite

I’ll be your family now,” he says. “I love you,” I say. (….)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me....

We don’t know what’s happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

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

‘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.’

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave...

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

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

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.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love… That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who...

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

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.

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

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

Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don’t. They don’t want you to act a certain way, they want you...

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...