Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

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.

Life can only be understood backwards

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Oh yea FORTUNATELY the girls are a lot braver then the guys, they flirt all the time.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

Don't kill!... The fly is asking you To save his life By rubbing his hands together

Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.