Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are

It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.