It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.

Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.

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

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to his face. I'm struck, suddenly, by how handsome he is-- all his features are proportionate, his eyes dark and lively, his skin bronze-brown. And he has probably always been handsome. Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles like he is surprised you bothered to look at him from the first place.