Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?