She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

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

As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.