Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
It is impossible to erase my choices.
If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.Okay. He laughs shakily in my ear. Why is your heart racing Tris?I cringe and say, Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against y...
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
Human reason can excuse any evil.
Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.'
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
And I provide much- needed eye candy.
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that something is a fake bathroom break.
Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
Simulation Tobias kisses my neck.I try to think. I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.I look Simulation Tobias in the eye and say...
Caleb, I say, I love you.His eyes gleam with tear as he says, I love you, too, Beatrice.
No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?And a half, he says.