41 quotes found
“Ingenuity requires creativity.”
“I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not”
“How do you stop conflict without conflict?”
“Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.”
“Mockery is childish. It does not become you.”
“No,I just thought I'd shoot bullets out of my nose”
“I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""T...”
“I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."”
“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
“Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.”
“I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.”
“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”
“What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from th...”
“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Becauseinside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, aboveall, toward l...”
“Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.”
“Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.”
“It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.”
“Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic.""That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so i...”
“Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.”
“I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.”
“You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?”
“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
“I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat...”
“I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.”
