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

There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

i like to think that im helping them by hating them

He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.

I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.

"You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions."

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.