I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

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?

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

We don't know exactly where all the tipping points are in the physical world for inescapable damage, but we're clearly reaching close to some of them.

You are judged of by what you possess.

We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude.

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy.

But deep this truth impressed my mind — Thro' all his works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated.