There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage-in controlling something, period.

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.

the truth will set u free but first it will piss u off

I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly

Happy [is] the man who has learned the cause of things and has put under his feet all fear inexorable fate and the noisy strife of the hell of greed.

He is in youth swift, pliant and merry, and leapeth and rusheth on all thing that is before him; and is lead by a staw and playeth there with.

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz - something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.

I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.

It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.

Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.

I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.