I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.

I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.