Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.

You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.

I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion. I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity. Because inside of me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, towards life. And as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.