Tris Prior

"I know everything now, and it breaks me."

"It's hard to explain why I like being here, in the aptitude test room."

"I can't stop myself from hoping."

"I wonder what he's thinking about when he looks at me like that."

"Maybe there's something wrong with me."

"I've realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things right."

"I am brave, I am strong, I am wise."

"I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different."

"I might be strong enough to survive in my faction, but I'm not strong enough to survive as an outcast."

"I don't want to be just one thing."

"I am learning that there is power in the confession of shameful things."

"I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."

"I understand that sometimes the merciful thing to do is to let someone go."

"I would rather be brave than safe."

"I am my mother's daughter, but I am still my own person."

"The person who can make the hard decisions is the one who understands that sacrifice is necessary."

"I want to stay in the darkness a little longer, before the light finds me."

"I don't need to control my breath. I need to control my fear."

"Some people are not meant to belong to only one thing."

"I understand that what she did was wrong, but I also understand why."

"I am learning to be brave."

"You can't protect yourself from pain, you can only choose whether it will destroy you or make you stronger."

"Sometimes the hardest thing to change is yourself."

"I would rather be honest with the world than accepted into a lie."

"The abnegation are not as selfless as they appear."

"I can't be what they want me to be because it isn't who I am."

"I want the freedom to make my own choices, even if they are wrong."

"What I learned today is that whoever is in charge of your initiation controls your outcome."

"We are all capable of being both good and evil."

"I have learned that courage is not the absence of fear."