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 girl"I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Behavioral science is not for sissies.

Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

The intelligent man is never bored.

You'll never know how close you are to a million-dollar idea unless you're willing to listen.

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

I think the important thing to remember here is that we haven't been attacked again at home since September of 2001.