Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and st... - Veronica Roth, Insurgent

"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."

"Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs."

"Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind."

"I'll be your family now,"he says. "I love you,"I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias,"I say, "I love you."

"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."