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.
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.Okay. He laughs shakily in my ear. Why is your heart racing Tris?I cringe and say, Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against y...
What did you do? I scream.You die, I die too.
No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?And a half, he says.
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...
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...
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...
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.
We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.