But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed. It'll only last for about a minute. Now get ready to run." I don't understand. How does Peter know? "Let me carry her," Tobias says. "No. You're a better shot than I am. Take my gun. I'll carry her.

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

That dot covers all the places we've ever been. You could cut that piece of land out of the ground and sing it into this ocean and no one would even notice. I feel that fear again, the fear of my own size. 'Right. So?' 'So? So everything I've ever worried about or said or done, how can it possibly matter?' He shakes his head. 'It doesn't.' 'Of course it does,' I say, 'All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.