My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

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?

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

Never let anyone steal your passion and calmness without your permission.

Whatever doesn't destroy you, makes you stronger. Hardships have a way of toughening us, if they don't kill us.

The truth about the climate crisis is still inconvenient for the large carbon polluters and the politicians who are in their pockets.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

The gap between the rich and the poor is wider in the United States than it is in any of the other industrialized nations.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.