I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

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?

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government.

Always act the part — and you can become whatever you wish to become!

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.