The Divergent Library: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four

by Veronica Roth

“The Amity are meeting in a half hour.” He quirks his eyebrows and adds, with a touch of melodrama, “To decide our fate.”

I stare straight ahead and pretend his eyes aren’t setting me on fire.

We both have war inside of us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive.

To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.