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

"I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.""

"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."

"Ingenuity requires creativity."

"The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it," I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care."

"What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them."

"When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself."

"Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break."

"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."

"I am selfish. I am brave."

"Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me."

"Soft hearts make the universe worth living in."

"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 peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. 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 restrained; this is free."

"Why is your heart racing Tris?"

"And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them."

"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."

"We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?"

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

"A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."His Mother says: "Why did you fight with your friend?""Because he demanded something of me, and I would not give it to him.""Why did you not give it to him?""Because it was mine.""My son, you now have possessions, but you do not have your friend. Which would you rather have?""My friend.""Then give freely, trusting that you will also be given what you need."

"Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up."

"I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or loved one. I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it."

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

"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 seen Peter be truly Dauntless."

"He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfastsin the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that willcome to find us soon, if we don't find it first."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing."

"I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me."

"I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening."

"Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities."

"Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time."

"That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds.I smile a little, and let myself go."

"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."

"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 think that's how it's supposed to be."

"I may be in pain, but I am not weak."

"What did you do? I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. "What did you do? This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter's grip, though his hands chafe. "What did you do? I scream. "You die, I die too Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. "I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

"It is impossible to erase my choices."

"Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way."

"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."

"I try to see only the good in him, I try."

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

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

"I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time."

"To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough."

"I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go."

"It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."

"Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other."