I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains towards freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life.
To my mother, who gave me the moment when Beatrice realizes how strong her mother is and wonders how she missed it for so long.
Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you’re a terrible liar.
I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.
That’s what I really want – to shed all the people who want to form and shape me, one by one, and learn instead to form and shape myself.
But the fire, the fire. The desire to live. I am not done yet, I am not.
Intelligence is a gift, not a right. It must be wielded not as a weapon but as a tool for the betterment of others.
Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I’ll be betraying someone.
The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.
I’ve faced my fears so many times in simulations, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready to face them in reality.
I may have an aptitude for fighting but that doesn’t mean i want to do it all day everyday.
We get the chance that we deserve.
There are people who are so smart they know how to manipulate you.
No siempre hay que pegar a la gente en la cara para demostrar lo fuerte que eres.
La verdad es tan poderosa como un animal salvaje, e igual que este, no puede permanecer enjaulada.
Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile.
I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
A lie of obsession is still a lie.
Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting your teeth through pain, and the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life.
He looks at me, not like he’s waiting for an explanation, but like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at.