I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

"I'll be your family now," he says.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.

The gun goes off. I fall.