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"I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious." "I wouldn't judge him too harshly," says Fernando. "Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious." ... "Yeah," I say. "So have I."
"I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with."
"She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move"
"I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last."
"Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says."
"Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves."
"The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs."
"We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are."
"Sometimes pain is for the greater good."
"Thank you for your honesty."
"Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless."
"It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest." --Four in Divergent"
"My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it."
"That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them."
"The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice."
"May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift."
"When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind."
"Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was."
"What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. "Honestly?" "Does now seem like the time for honesty?" I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap."
"she’s not pretty, that word is too small. She is not like the girls I used to stare at, all bend and curve and softness. She is small but strong, and her bright eyes demand attention. Looking at her is like waking up."