Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

It's time to be with my brother now

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.

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.