I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.