I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.

Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.