Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference.

I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.