The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.

This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.

I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.