"I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.""
- Veronica Roth
"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."
"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."
"What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then ..."
"When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very often unperceptive. If fear only rumbled through a woman’s soul and glit..."
- Kelsey Brickl
"The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over."
"But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut."
"But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost."
"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."
"I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, with..."