I feel the urge, familiar now, to wrench myself from my body and speak directly into her mind. It is the same urge, I realize, that makes me want to kiss her every time I see her, because even a slive...
I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.
The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy.'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the spa...
Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
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.
Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if char...
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.
I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one m...
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unrem...
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.