Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.

To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

God Tris, are you even human?

Then his eyes focus on something over my shoulder, and he starts walking. I turn to see Uriah jogging from the elevator bank. He is grinning. “Heard a rumor you were a dirty traitor,” Uriah says. “Yeah, whatever,” says Zeke. They collide in an embrace that looks almost painful to me, slapping each other’s backs and laughing with their fists clasped between them.