Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.

Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape,” says Uriah. “Like he would let anyone do that,” she says, snorting. Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.

What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?

I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely

Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.