THE SERUM WEARS off five hours later, when the sun is just beginning to set. Tobias shut me in my room for the rest of the day, checking on me every hour. This time when he comes in, I am sitting on t...
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.
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...
Looking at her is like waking up.
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 feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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,...
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.
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...
Nothing else is all right. His whisper tickles my cheek. But we are.
Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
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.
Can you be a girl for a few seconds?I'm always a girl I frown.You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girlI twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see he...
But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.