Ingenuity requires creativity.

Yes," she says, her eyes bright with tears. "My dear child, you've done so well.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

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

When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony; when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked; when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.

He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.