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

Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris

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

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’

Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.

How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me -- the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?

You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.