Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.

Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

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.