We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.

You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.