So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.

If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!

No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.

You're too important to just... die.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.