" Yeah, well,” I say, “I left Abnegation because I wasn’t selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.” “That’s not entirely true.” He smiles at me. “That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me—that selfless girl, that’s not you?” He’s figured out more about me than I have. "

― Veronica Roth , Divergent (Divergent, #1)