Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris

But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

My mother told me once 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.

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.

Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.