It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.

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?

There's no romance in geometry, " Lindsey answered. "Just you wait.

Think about it. If I say to you, "Oh! I wrote a 500-page book on that!" Don’t your eyebrows go up?

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

It is impossible to control creation.

Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

…[Thomas Wolfe] says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives, and that, uh, anybody who sits down to write is gonna use the clay of their own life, that you can’t avoid that.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.