The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

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

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

The person you became with her is worth being.