I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.

I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.