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.
I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me.
I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I...
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.
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our...
Change, like healing, takes time.
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...
We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.
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...
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...
My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.