"Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them."
"The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over."
"She's a sailboat and I'm an anchor, pulling us both down."
"But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut."
"But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost."
"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them."
"You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."
"In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her."
"I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved."
"I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless."
"Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone."
"I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding."
"The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite"
"The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live."