I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.

No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.