Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

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?

Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.

Never make a sales pitch as the way you introduce yourself. What you CAN say is how you help people and businesses.

I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.

I love eggs. When it's the season of truffles, scrambled eggs with truffles, and I'm happy. I'm smiling like that.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

There's a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.