In order to have peace, we must first have trust.

Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.

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

Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here--- every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Faction before blood.

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.