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.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

You can either wonder or worry. It is better to choice the former.

There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.

In the haste to imitate an idol, in the race to become someone else, we forget the most important lesson.How to be ourselves.

Stupidity well packaged can sound like wisdom.

I can literally hear you getting fatter.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.

Our garage was basically science fair central.