Divergent Quotes

“The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“One Choice, Breaks free of his past

One Choice, Embraces his future

One Choice, Exposes the dangers

One Choice, Changes him- forever

One Choice will free him”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“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.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“There is always a storm. There is always rain. Some experience it. Some live through it. And others are made from it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Here, I've learned to defend myself,
I've learned to be stronger,
but one thing I haven't learned, won't let myself learn, is how to enjoy causing someone else pain. If I'm going to become Dauntless, I'm going to do it on my terms, even if that means that a part of me will always be a Stiff.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“The hurts from my last day with my father are healed now, but I want to remember where they were; I want to remember what I escaped for as long as I live.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”
― Veronica Roth, The Traitor

“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.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“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.”
― Veronica Roth

“maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear”
― Veronica Roth, The Son

“I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.
That is what this tattoo will be, for me: a scar. And it seems fitting that it should document the worst memory of pain I have.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Be the hero of your children’s story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed.
Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“It's been so long since someone said my name that way, like it was a revelation and not a threat.”
― Veronica Roth

“If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“That’s the funny thing about guns; even untrained hands can feel powerful using them. But take that gun away and you’re left with nothing but a coward whose only skill is how to blindly pull a trigger.”
― Jennifer Wilson, Rising

“Tell him I didn't want to leave him”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“What makes you different makes you dangerous”
― Tobias Eaton

“I could not be attracted to anyone that fragile.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Quattro/Tobias a Tris: Non voglio essere una cosa sola. Io voglio essere coraggioso, altruista, intelligente, onesto e gentile.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, 'Dauntless,' 'Erudite,' 'Divergent,' "Allegiant,' or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost.”
― Shannon L. Alder