To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it." (divergent pg.138)

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?