Shh, I say. Arms around me. Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,
Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatin...
Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
It's wrong, he says. It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyo...
It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
If you throw yourself into danger for no reason again, you will have become nothing more than a Dauntless adrenaline junkie looking for a hit, and I'm not going to help you do it. He spits the words o...
I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.
I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.
I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any di...
I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
God, I snap. You don't want to have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?First of all, don't use that name like a weapon again...
Fernando crouches next to one of the beds and takes out a box. He digs inside it for a few seconds, then picks up a small, round disc. It is made of a pale metal that I saw often in Erudite headquarte...
Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, I like your hair that way.
Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.