...we have something they want. Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. We should be thankful that we know better.

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 mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life.

Don't let their chaos distract you from your goals.

The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

You want people to watch what you're doing.

When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.