I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

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.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

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

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

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

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

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

Composers are not all good conductors.

I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Some people consider utopia to be derived from nature. For some people, utopia is the city.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.