I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

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?

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price, " Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Those who believe in it are the ones who find it

By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

We have a relationship with our customer, and that relationship translates into sales.

These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.