“What’s worst: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?”

“What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?”

“A one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else’s eye to poke out.”

“Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”

“I would rather be dead than empty”

“Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.”

“She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.”