Veronica Roth

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn__. It isn__

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

... but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe.

Honor,_ I said with a snort. __onor has no place in survival.

It__ getting more difficult to be wise,_ he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. __ think that__ how it__supposed to be.

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch

I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

It__ not about Al,_ I snap. __t__ about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It___Ican___

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

This is what I chose. This is it." I look over Robert's shoulder. The Dauntless guards seem to have finished examining the truck. The bearded man gets back into the driver's seat and closes the door behind him. "Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just...to be happy." "Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?" he says

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Aren__ you going to ask me if I__ all right?_ I say.__o, I__ pretty sure you__e not all right.__e shakes his head. ____ going to ask you not to make any decisions until we__e talkedabout it.