He put his arm across Cisi’s shoulders, and caught sight of his marks, turned out toward the light. Maybe they were marks of loss, like Cyra said, but standing there with his family, he realized something else. You could get things back.
Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.
Some people will always fear change.
Four sets his hand on my back and says, “Welcome to Dauntless.
I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, ‘Dauntless,’ ‘Erudite,’ ‘Divergent,’ “Allegiant,′ or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
No one’s perfect,” I whisper. “It doesn’t work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it.
This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.
Well, first I got reamed out in front of everyone, and then I had to chat with the woman who’s trying to destroy my old faction, and then Eric almost tossed my friends out of Dauntless, so yeah, it’s shaping up to be a pretty great day, Four.
I READ SOMEWHERE, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. 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 toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it. So I sob into my hands instead.
Let’s go to the cafeteria,” Will says, “and eat cake.
It was difficult to sleep after someone had peeled one’s skin off with a knife, but I gave it my best effort.
Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante.
Es lo que pasa cuando chocan dos hermanos: se hieren de la misma forma.
I walked the maintenance tunnels, my face pulsing. The memory of his lips against my cheek played over and over in my mind. I tried to stomp it down like a stray ember. I couldn’t kindle it and still do what needed to be done.
I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland.
Fear God Alone.
I open my eyes. No, I was wrong; I didn’t jump off the roof because I wanted to be like the Dauntless. I jumped off because I already was like them, and I wanted to show myself to them. I wanted to acknowledge a part of myself that Abnegation demanded that I hide.
That nerve ball isn’t you. It’s just this thing that lives in your head, telling you lies. If you get rid of it... think of what you could do. Think of what you could be.
He’d rather have anyone but you. He’s not going to give you more than an inch in any direction. So good luck with your short leash.
Well, you can’t love everything equally,” she said. “You just can’t – and if you did, then it’s the same as loving nothing at all.