The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

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

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.

My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.