Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

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

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

She tries to turn too soon, and the ladder smacks into Fernando's shoulder. "Oh! Sorry, Nando." The jolt knocks his glasses askew. He smiles at Christina and takes the glasses off, shoving them into his pocket. "Nando?" I say to him. "I thought the Erudite didn't like nicknames?" "When a pretty girl calls you by a nickname," he says, "it is only logical to respond to it.

Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here--- every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.