" You may be one of the only people who can possibly know, but you don’t seem to have the capacity to answer.” “You think I’m stupid,” Akos said. “I think you’ve programmed yourself to survive, and you have little energy for anything else,” Lazmet said. “If you had not had to fight to live, perhaps you could have become a more interesting person, but here we are. "

― Veronica Roth , The Fates Divide (Carve the Mark, #2)