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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

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If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

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I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoela...more

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Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at ...more

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We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

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

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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

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Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

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I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what...more

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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across myface, to the wall behind me or the c...more

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Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make a...more