It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.
All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say.‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the sam...
I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that something is a fake bathroom break.
What did you do? I scream.You die, I die too.
Simulation Tobias kisses my neck.I try to think. I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.I look Simulation Tobias in the eye and say...
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.
It is impossible to erase my choices.
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too.‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid...
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...
Some things are hard to let go of.
If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
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...
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.