Veronica Roth, Divergent

Quotes

• “Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.""Okay."He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"I cringe ...”
• “I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to ...”
• “What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled...”
• “Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determin...”
• “Moths,"repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?""Not just a cloud of moths,"she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere....”
• “We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do...”
• “Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes w...”
• “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating."He releases me but doesn't pull away, his h...”
• “Can you be a girl for a few seconds?""I'm always a girl"I frown."You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl"I twi...”
• “One ChoiceOne Choice, decided your friends.One Choice, defines your beliefs.One Choice, determines your loyalties - Fore...”
• “Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or bu...”
• “We could visit him,"suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed i...”
• “She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was ...”
• “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it...”
• “Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.”
• “I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.”
• “Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
• “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
• “I might be in love with you."He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.”
• “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.”
• “Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”
• “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
• “Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.”
• “It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”
• “Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.”
• “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.”
• “Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
• “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
• “That is death - shifting from "is"to "was.”
• “...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
• “I am selfish. I am brave.”