But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

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

I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.