But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.

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

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.

In that moment I know exactly what I want; I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.