If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.

I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.