"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."

"The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite."

"Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all."

"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."

"He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face."

"I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine," I say. "I'm fine now," I say again, this time for myself.I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.I don't."

"I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless"."

"She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down."

"Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming."

"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 to dissolve."

"It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."

"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."

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

"Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like."

"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 know it's her."

"So you're her brother? says Lynn. "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."

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

"I traded cowardice for cruelty, I traded weakness for ferocity."

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

"I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me."

"This is what I chose. This is it." I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. "Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy." "Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?" he says."

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

"Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is."

"Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child."

"The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become."

"How do you stop conflict without conflict?"

"A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy."

"Aren't you going to ask me if I'm all right? I say."No, I'm pretty sure you're not all right.He shakes his head. "I'm going to ask you not to make any decisions until we've talkedabout it."

"It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary."

"The opinions of others cannot damage you."

"... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe."

"There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period."

"Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think."

"I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."

"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 I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right?Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten."

"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."

"Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall."

"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 things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al."

"You won't shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong."

"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."

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

"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."

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

"Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle."

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

"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 sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation."

"I miss the fears of the past few weeks, rendered small by my fears now."

"That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel."

"He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety."

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