“Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.” ThinkingLittlesGirlStressedParanoiaCandorStressed Out Author:Veronica Roth
“I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?” KnowsYearsDoeTwoActingLeaderInformationBecomingCostTwo YearsAvoidingDauntless Author:Veronica Roth
“I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.” KnowsIdeasReasonTestsOkayNo IdeaShakesLoyalFactionsAptitudeDauntlessAptitude Test Author:Veronica Roth
“All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.” KnowsWantFeelingsFiguresDesperateDelusional Author:Veronica Roth
“I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.” BodyUsedEvilFatherNamesFourTaughtBrotherArmsGunToolsBoundsShootingEricSimulationTobiasDauntlessFather And Brother Author:Veronica Roth
“Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.” DoeInnovationProtectionTechnologicalSustenanceCandorExpendables Author:Veronica Roth
“Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless” FeelingsSoundLove IsParticularMeaninglessAssociationArbitrary Author:Hugh Laurie
“I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.” ShouldKindMightAbleJusticeRoomsSawsBloodBrotherExpressionRevengeThirstTattooSimulationParlor Author:Veronica Roth
“This is the most joyful day that ever I saw in my pilgrimage on earth.” EarthSawsJoyfulPilgrimageBeing JoyfulJoyful Moments Author:Donald Cargill