veronica-roth

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.

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 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.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air from my lungs and sink to the bottom. The water muffles my ears. I feel its movement over my face. I think about snorting the water into my lungs so it kills me faster, but I can't bring myself to do it. I blow bubbles from my mouth. Relax. I close my eyes. My lungs burn.

I don__ know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It__ getting more difficult to be wise. _ He says,laughing into my ear.I smile at him. _ I think that__ how it__ supposed to be.

The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.

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

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.

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.

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.