tris

I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care. "I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell. She smiles. "I almost always wish that.

It__ getting more difficult to be wise,_ he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. __ think that__ how it__supposed to be.

It__ not about Al,_ I snap. __t__ about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyonecalls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It___Ican___

So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Aren__ you going to ask me if I__ all right?_ I say.__o, I__ pretty sure you__e not all right.__e shakes his head. ____ going to ask you not to make any decisions until we__e talkedabout it.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

no wonder you left."Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.

Why is your heart racing Tris?