I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

What's your name?
Um...
Think about it. You don't get to pick again.
Tris.

You know, most boys enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.

From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.

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?

I'd rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

One choice can transform you!

Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.

Maybe now he
thinks I'm stupid, or strange. Maybe it was worth it.

He smells safe, too, like sunlit walks in the orchard and silent breakfasts
in the dining hall. And in the moments before I drift off to sleep, I almost forget about our war-torn city and all the conflict that will
come to find us soon, if we don't find it first.

Well, I already know what happened to my face, I say. I was there. Sort of.

He seemed placid to me on the platform, but something about that stillness makes me wary now.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks.

Preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

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

Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him; I want to know the answer too.