I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.

My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

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

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!

I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I was selfish." I say. "You were selfish? You aren't anymore?" "Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.