There's a reason why she left them, Lauren, he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. What's your name? Um... I don't know why I hesitate. But Beatrice just doesn't sound right anymore.Think about i...
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, I say. Controlling you is.
He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.
Before I leave the bathroom, I pinch my cheeks hard to bring blood to the surface of my skin. It’s stupid, but I don’t want to look weak and exhausted in front of everyone.When I walk back into Tobias...
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He cle...
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Sometimes pain is for the greater good.
Some things are hard to let go of.
Morning, I say.Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths peace.
If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
I feel more like myself. That is all I need: to remember who I am. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near-death experiences stop her.
I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is importan...
What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
What book(s) changed your life and why? I could probably list books for days, so I’ll just list a few favorites: The Giver by Lois Lowry, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, A Wrinkle in Time by Madelei...