Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.

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.

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

Change, like healing, takes time.

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Any feeling, emotion or impulse that originates from the 'mind' can never be suppressed.

Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That's what it looks like to dreamers!

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and boughr jewelry.

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

I think a lot of singer-songwriters get compared to each other, but I'd like to think that what I'm doing is special and specific to me.

You don't always know how to do things when they're happening.

Narrative living is the beginning of rhetoric.