I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me

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?

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.