If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.
He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins...
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
Okay, okay. I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?Yes.Feel how steady it is?It’s fast.Yes, well, that has nothing to do...
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.
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.
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...
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.
Can you be a girl for a few seconds?I'm always a girl I frown.You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girlI twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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...
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.