But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.

That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?

I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.

They died for me,” I say. That feels important

I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, "I don't know, guys! Just wait." That's what I'm doing!

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

Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic." "That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-