It's not just children who need heroes.

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be.

Tris: "I was reading." Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt." Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

That's all this job is, Daine," she explained. "Trying to please everyone and pleasing no one. And it will only get worse, not better.