So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words "Thank you for your honesty" at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.