I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.

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?

If time were perfectly symmetric, gravity wouldn't exist.

The worst prohibition, it must be said, is a prohibition on thinking - and that, sadly, is what the U.S. government is guilty of today.

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

The best of what we do and are, Just God, forgive!