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Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.
Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.
What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent
I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.
She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.
My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not.
In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.