I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

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?

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.

Zander, you're getting me all wet and gooey, " she squealed.He laughed again as he plopped her on the bed. "And I've just started.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

The single greatest moment of my life happened in Toronto, Canada!