Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters . . ." I will. " . . . this will happen again" It will never happen again.

I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.