His hands shift to my shoulders, and his fingers brush over the edge of my bandage. He pulls back with a puckered brow.
“Are you hurt?” he asks.
“No. It’s another tattoo. It’s healed, I just…wanted to keep it covered up.”
“Can I see?”
I nod, my throat tight. I pull my sleeve down and slip my shoulder out of it. He stares down at my shoulder for a second, and then runs his fingers over it. They rise and fall with my bones, which stick out farther than I’d like. When he touches me, I feel like everywhere his skin meets mine is changed by the connection. It sends a thrill through my stomach. Not just fear. Something else, too. A wanting.
He peels the corner of the bandage away. His eyes roam over the symbol of Abnegation, and he smiles.
“I have the same one,” he says, laughing. “On my back.”
“Really? Can I see it?”
He presses the bandage over the tattoo and pulls my shirt back over my shoulder.
“Are you asking me to undress, Tris?”
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. “Only…partially.


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His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pa...
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That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as...
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. . . in the distance I hear a train rushing over the rails, but we are moving away from this place ...
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How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all 'r...
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She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.
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This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wan...
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It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train alr...
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Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to p...
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What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
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His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like t...
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There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles. "What's you...
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I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago.
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I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
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And don't call me 'Four', okay? It's nice to hear my name again.
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I push open the door just as Tobias, who is sitting on the floor with one leg stretched out, hurls a...
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I have a scar - a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's alwa...
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In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we fi...
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I have to get out.
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Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your ...
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she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet...
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Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming f...
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His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat; lives in my chee...
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If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'...
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Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow.
There is too much I ...
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You die, I die too.
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Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you pe...
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I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his ne...
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Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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Why is your heart racing Tris?
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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't...
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Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseei...
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I'll be your family now," he says.
"I love you," I say. (....)
He stares at me. I wait wi...
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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something ab...
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actua...
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I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
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In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can...
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave ...
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Simulation Tobias kisses my neck.

I try to think. I have to face the fear. I have to take...
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He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and...
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Okay, okay.” I set my hand on top of his and guide it to my chest, so it’s right over my heart. ...
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Resisting is worth doing.
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Someone shouts, "Enough!" and I think too much and nothing at all.
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I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
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One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of...
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It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without...
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One choice can transform you.
One choice can destroy you.
Once choice will define you.
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It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please...
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Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most...
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My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem.
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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experien...
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He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make ...
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Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried ...
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Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
"Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your h...
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You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn'...
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I release the trigger of my gun and drop it. Before I can lose my nerve, I turn and press my forehea...
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for anothe...
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Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were...
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The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.
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But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters ...
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