I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
Then everyone can call you Six.Four and Six, I say.
Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real.
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, I say. Controlling you is.
It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.
I would rather be dead than empty
I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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...
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
Before I leave the bathroom, I pinch my cheeks hard to bring blood to the surface of my skin. It’s stupid, but I don’t want to look weak and exhausted in front of everyone.When I walk back into Tobias...
You're too important to just... die.
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
Nothing else is all right. His whisper tickles my cheek. But we are.
Lies require commitment.
I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure...
I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together. why you like me! I exclaim. Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
I love you I say.I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.