I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.

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

I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.

I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?

It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.