“I never thought about how important the sky was until I didn't have one.”

“I never asked her how she was, because I didn't really think about how she was. I just thought about what she thought of me.”

“I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.”

“I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.”

“Maybe what I really wanted, I began to think, was a stronger sense of fellowship... I thought about my friends and about how I didn't have any...”

“I thought I was having a heart attack. I couldn't breathe. I didn't know much, but I did know the rules about owning a dick. Rule number one: It should never bleed. Rule number two: There was no rule number two. IT SHOULD NEVER BLEED.”