Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with fligh...
Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. Wake. Up, Four snaps. You are h...
My name is Four, I say. Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning.Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor, Uriah says.Yeah, wh...
He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
He hooks a thumb in one of his belt loops and says, How are you, Beatrice? Did you just call me ? Thought I would give it a try. He smiles. Not good? Maybe on special occasions only. Initiation days,...
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...
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.
I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.
Looking at her is like waking up.
This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.
How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is importan...
I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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...
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