“A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.”

“Little kids shoot marbleswhere the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light…I just want to be pure.”

“I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.”

“Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun”

“They'll Have to shoot me first to take my Gun.”

“The girdle went from just under my breasts to the top of my knees. It cinched me in pretty tight. In fact, it was so tight that when I sat in it and farted, the farts would slide up my back, shoot out the top of the girdle, and make my hair fly off the back of my beck.”