Some things are hard to let go of.
Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
My name is Tobias Eaton, Tobias says. I don't think you want to push me off this train.The effect of the name on the people in the car is immediate and bewildering: they lower their weapons. They exch...
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterward...
Caleb, I say, I love you.His eyes gleam with tear as he says, I love you, too, Beatrice.
Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
I'm not going to pretend to know what's going on with you, he says. But if you senselessly risk your life again -- I am not senselessly risking my life. I am trying to make , like my parents would hav...
Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning.Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor, Uriah says.Yeah, wh...
I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
To me there's a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.
My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets w...
The fact is, Cara continues, the data network exists, and that is ethically questionable, but I believe it can work to our advantage here. Just as the computers can access data from other factions, th...
In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't...
She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.
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