Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
Morning, I say.Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.
My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if char...
My name is Four, I say. Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
Not many of us will be able to go, because a crowd that large would draw too much attention. Evelyn won’t let us leave without a fight, so I thought it would be best to recruit people who I know to be...
Nothing else is all right. His whisper tickles my cheek. But we are.
Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
Okay, okay. I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. Feel my heartbeat. Can you feel it?Yes.Feel how steady it is?It’s fast.Yes, well, that has nothing to do...
The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.Don't say I never took you anywhere nice, Peter says.Wouldn't dream of it, I say.
Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape, says Uriah. Like he would let anyone do that, she says, snorting.Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.
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