We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.

That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.