feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

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?

Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.

Running in the relay of life sometimes makes me notice that faith takes over the baton when reason finished its part.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

It's cool now to play golf.

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God.

We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.