Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.