You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton

Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.

Do the elevators work?" I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. "Sure they do." says Zeke, rolling his eyes, "You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator?" "Yeah," says Uriah. "I kinda do.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will

When I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.