I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters?" I say. "Not that I now of," says Cara. "Unless you want to jump from one roof to another." She laughs a little as she says it, like it's a joke. I raise my eyebrows at her. "Wait," she says. "You aren't considering---?

Be careful, though." "Aren't I always?" "No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.