Notes from the reader: replace the concept of "factions" from the book with any label you may have put on yourself to help find like-minded people to fully understand what the author is saying. We all have our factions, even if they're chosen rather than forced upon us. (E.g.: nerd, jock... stoner?)
--110--
"No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation."
--155--
"The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs."
--157--
"I wonder how long Al stood at the ledge before he pitched himself over it, into the Dauntless pit.
He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done--almost killing me was one of those things--and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al."
--168--
"I think it would be easier to fight in a dress. It would give your legs freer movement. And who really cares if you flash people your underwear, as long as you're kicking the crap out of them?"
--203--
"I can't even think of a word strong enough to describe him. Apparently I need to expand my vocabulary."
--283--
"By the time the fight dies down, my clothes are more paint-colored than black. I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."
--289--
"I try to think of something helpful to say. I'm not going to die--but I don't know that. We live in a dangerous world, and am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive. I can't reassure him."
--329--
"I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true. Jeanine has no reason to act out of malice. But she is cruel because she doesn't care what she does, as long as it fascinates her. I may as well be a puzzle or a broken machine she wants to fix. She will break open my skull just to see the inner workings of my brain; I will die here, and that wil be the merciful thing."
--331-2--
"I am like Jeanine. And I can either despise it, attack it, eradicate it. . . or I can use it."
--332--
"When I was young, I thought that was like heaven would be like, all white light and nothing else. Now I know that can't be true, because white light is menacing."
--377--
"I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us."
--?--
"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
--410--
"I feel, as I look at him, that I am finally seeing him as he is, instead of how he is in relation to me. So how well do I really know him, if I have not seen this before?"
--418--
""And while he has done cruel, evil things, our society is not divided into "good" and "Bad." Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind. Marcus is not good or bad, but both."
--510--
"People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them."
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