Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.

With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff," he mutters.

though he does not touch me, he steadies me.

Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.