I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

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?

Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.

Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

Let them fear bondage who are slaves to fear; the sweetest freedom is an honest heart.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.

Morons. I've got morons on my team.