For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
Veronica RothJust as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.
Veronica RothSo, the thing weโre all not talking about,โ he says. He gestures to me. โYou almost died, a sadistic pansycake saved you, and now weโre all waging some serious war with the factionless as allies.โ โPansycake?โ says Christina. โDauntless slang.โ Lynn smirks. โSupposed to be a huge insult, only no one uses it anymore.โ โBecause itโs so offensive,โ says Uriah, nodding. โNo. Because itโs so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?โ โAnd a half,โ he says.
Veronica RothBut that wasnยดt the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my motherโs false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didnโt see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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