All the talk in the world won't undo what we are. They put us in a corner we could never get out of on our own, and they're not in a rush to pull us out.

It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character; it just matters what you do with it.

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

I can’t help it." I sighed. "One can never help being born into perfection.

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger.

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

I hit your thigh!” “Oh, please. A man doesn’t need that long to recover from a knee to the thigh.