In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

He'd imagined peacetime would bring him a sense of belonging. During the war it kept him going, that thought of peace. He'd believed in it like a season he knew it would arrive one day

Intellectual curiosity and the human brain are the root of science.

If you want to stand out don't be different be outstanding.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

I never write anything down. I write onstage.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

When you allow me to live with you, every glance at the world around you will be a sort of salvation.