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No one asks to live in squalor, Tris. It is just that squalor is all that is left to them by those with money.”
no one who’s truly your friend would want you to feel bad for knowing them.”
“Most disasters are fast, and big. You can see everyone else’s life got overturned when yours did. Houses are smashed, livestock’s dead. But plagues isolate people. They shut themselves inside while disease takes a life at a time, day after day. It adds up. Whole cities break under the load of what was lost. People stop trusting each other, because you don’t know who’s sick.”
I had forgotten that there is never a point at which we stop learning, or needing to learn.
