But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

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

Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.

I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.