Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.

The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Change, like healing, takes time.

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

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

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.

Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear

People were always pointing the finger at the fast food industry. And I was a big fan of personal responsibility - you know, no one is forcing you to eat. We're not geese being stuffed with corn.

Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.