Divergent Quotes
Veronica Roth
I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
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Everything has changed and it won't stop changing anytime soon.
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You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I tried."
"Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."
"You're very good-looking."
He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.
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But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.
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If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.
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But then I stopped allowing myself to dream, because it was more painful to long for things and never get them than to deal with whatever was in front of me. [...] I'm too old to hear confront nonsense anymore. Too old to believe that everything will be alright.
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maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear
4678 Veronica Roth
I wonder if that fear still creeps up on her now though she worked so hard to face it - I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.
4997 Veronica Roth
Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.
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Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
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Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight-toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.
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I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
4583 Veronica Roth
Stupid. Why do people want to pretend
that death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t
4626 Veronica Roth
Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
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Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante
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Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
4576 Veronica Roth
Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them.
4529 Veronica Roth
You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
3879 Veronica Roth
Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something."
"Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?"
I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"...
"Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar.
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