It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

"Welcome to the Amity compound," Johanna's eyes fix on my face, and she smiles crookedly. "Let us take care of you."

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.