Marriage is the moral death of every proud soul, of all independence.
We must remember that possession of physical beauty can easily weaken the moral faculty.
Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
Some people were like rubber bands--willing to stretch but eager to snap back into place at the first opportunity.
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)
Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
We think we ." "Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.
Being scared is practice for being scared.
The most mentally deranged people are those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.
I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.
Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.
The way towards simplicity is through outrage.
There is no greater power on this earth than story.
Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can...
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
My mind told me he most have had a weapon; my eyes saw none.
One day you might just find something worth living an eternity for
