Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.