I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time. - Veronica Roth

"Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"

I raise my eyebrows.

She raises hers, too, mimicking me.

"The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around."

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process.

My mother was Dauntless.