I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Ser sincero en todo momento debe requerir valor. Yo no sabría hacerlo.

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

His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my cheeks. "I still don't understand," he says softly, "how she knew that it would work.

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.