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A few days ago, “Tobias” was a name only I knew, among the Dauntless; it was the piece of himself that he gave me.
I don’t have to tell him. I can just try to forget—he can help me forget.
bad idea but okay
I keep staring, but I don’t see myself.
How can I look the same, when she’s gone and everything is different? I can’t.
“And you don’t think you’re too old to be with my little sister?” Tobias lets out a short laugh. “She isn’t your little anything.”
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they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that’s beautiful.”
“I told him how we got together—that’s how knife-throwing came up,” he says, “and I told him I wasn’t messing around.”
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The truth has a way of changing a person’s plans.
Both of us watch the purification happen, and I wonder if he is thinking what I am: that it would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to linger.
I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be.
I can’t tell him that I’m having nightmares about Will, or I would have to explain why.
OMG JUST TELL HIM DUMMY
“Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.”
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If this continues I will break apart, and maybe that would be better, maybe it would be better to shatter and bear nothing.
“I’ll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.”
In the moments before I drift off to sleep, I hear him whisper, “I love you, Tris.”
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But that’s not true, is it? I smile. “I feel good.
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“That’s why you like me!” I exclaim. “Because you’re not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.”
HAHAHA I LOVE HER
“people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
I didn’t realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
“What were they waiting for, exactly?” “For the world to fall apart,” Edward says. “And now it has.”
