It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

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.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

The best fiction is true.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end, looking back, you know its worth it.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our desire to be secure we lose our ability to be free.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

If you come home with your panties still on, I am never speaking to you again.

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.