You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however.... She smiles. You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting.I try to hide...
What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
Four wanders through the crowd of initiates, watching us as we go through the movements again. When he stops in front of me, my insides twist like someone is stirring them with a fork. He stares at me...
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and w...
Looking at her is like waking up.
I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
I only came for Cake -Tobias Eaton, Divergent
I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins...
You sadistic pansycake.
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He cle...
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...
Morning, I say.Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterward...