Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Is this Prior?" "In the flesh." "Why's he bleeding?" "Because he's an idiot." Zeke offers me a black jacket with a factionless symbol stitched into the collar. "I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose." I wrap the jacket around Caleb's shoulders and fasten one of the buttons over his chest. He avoids my eyes. "I think it's a new phenomenon.", I say.

Did you just call me BEATRICE?

Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich