“Hal...cleared his throat."....Doing the hard stuff's what makes it an adventure.”

“Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.”

“I should have added,' he continues, clearing his throat, 'that nothing the Prophet says makes any sense.”

“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.”

“He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too.‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’Slowly I nod.”

“So." [Isobel] cleared her throat. "What are we doing?""We," [Varen] said at last, "are doing a project on Poe.""Didn't he marry his cousin or something?""The man is a literary god and that's all you have to say?”