Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.

A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of

The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?