Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

"I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you."

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

Looking at her is like waking up.