If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him.

Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn__ need policing; they needed help, and we could give it to them. But I would rather not mention that now, or here. It__ one of the many things Erudite gives as evidence of Abnegation__ incompetence.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.