“How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?”

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

“What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?”

“The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed.""The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?”

“If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.”

“You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.”

“It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.”