Цитаты из книги Divergent Trilogy

Заставить кого-то горевать - самая жестокая издёвка над человеком, а со мной это сделали дважды.

It isn't right to wish pain on other person just because they hurt me first.

"I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people. Like you did for me. That's what dauntless are supposed to be, right? That's what courage is. Not..hurting people for no reason."

His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

Decades ago our ancestors realized that it isn't political ideology, religious belief, race, or nationalism that is to blame for a warring world. Rather, they determined that it was the fault of human personality — of humankind's inclination toward evil, in whatever form that is.

"It's either one way or the other way. No nuances. The world doesn't work like that. Evil depends on where you're standing." "No matter where I stand, I'll still think mind controlling an entire city of people is evil."

I read somewhere, once, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to pverproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains for freedom, toward life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you opress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.

But that can't be forgiveness – if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happend without that hatred I can feel in my gut, right? Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten.

I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them.

That's what love does, when it's right – it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

Evelyn tried to control people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious – she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.

How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

I guess we all decide our children's fates just by making our own life decisions.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

What if my parents' God, their whole belief system, is just something concocted by a bunch of scientists to keep us under control? And not just their beliefs about God and whatever else is out there, but about right and wrong, about selflessness? Do all those things have to change because we know our world was made?