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

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.