It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up

Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.