There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

What?" I ask. "I'm developing a theory." "And it is?" She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, "That you have a death wish.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.