I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.

First learn to dream big, then the possibilities will follow by itself.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa

Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.

The more security you seek, the less freedom you have.

And without a doubt it is more comfortable to endure blind bondage than to work for one's liberation; the dead, too, are better suited to the earth than the living.

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.