I need the protection of seeming weak.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

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

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.

Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?