It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.

The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

Some things are hard to let go of.

I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.