Divergent

by Veronica Roth

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  I clutch the hard drive to my chest, lean my head on Tobias’s shoulder, and try to sleep.

  Abnegation and Dauntless are both broken, their members scattered. We are like the factionless now. I do not know what life will be like, separated from a faction—it feels disengaged, like a leaf divided from the tree that gives it sustenance. We are creatures of loss; we have left everything behind. I have no home, no path, and no certainty. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.

  I suppose that now, I must become more than either.