It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her, and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.' Her. For a moment, it's like I'm looking at a different person, sitting in Tobias's skin, one whose life is not as simple as I thought. He wanted to leave Dauntless, but he stayed because of me. He never told me that.

So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.