I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.

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?

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

We are no longer able to hear God - There are too many frequencies filling our ears.

I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.