If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.

Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.