Quotes from Veronica Roth, Insurgent

Sleep, " he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.""With what?""My bar hands, obviously."In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, "I love you, Tris.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, " I say. "Controlling you is.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his neck to the small of his back and put it under his shirt. He kisses me harder.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

Instead I take the lead, Tobias silent at my side, and though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

Fear, " she says, "is more powerful than pain.

Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

So you're her brother?" says Lynn. "I guess we know who got the good genes."I laugh at the expression on Caleb's face, his mouth drawn into a slight pucker and his eyes wide.