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

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

I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.

Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup?" she says. "Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.

But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.