“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
“Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton”
“There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton”
“You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time"This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.”
“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?”
“Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.”