You know I’m getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.
He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?
Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
I’ve done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.
No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
I’m going to shoot a muffin off Marlene’s head.
Who cares about pretty? I’m going for noticeable.
Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
There’s really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of ‘Divergent,’ in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
I also don’t believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.
I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.