No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never... - Veronica Roth, Insurgent
"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."
"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."
"It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."
"Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff,"says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. "Well, half of half of our faction.""In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,"Lynn says."
"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."
"Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it."
"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."