Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

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?

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

You and your heart shouldn't feel so far apart

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.