1. “I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.”
2. “I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn’t true — I didn’t trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don’t trust anyone to do that, but that isn’t his problem; it’s mine.”
3. “This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias’s rises and falls. That’s why I can’t let him step in to defend me now.”
4. “I am the instrument of my own destruction.”
5. “He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. His breaths, his body, my body, we are so close there is no difference.”
6. “I love you. No matter what,”
7. “We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.”
8. “I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.”
9. “Don’t you dare try to apologize.” His voice shakes. “This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.”
10. “You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.”
11. “How do you stop conflict without conflict?”
12. “There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand”
13. “No matter what you believe, there’s a technology out there for you.”
14. “Ingenuity requires creativity.”
15. “there were some things I didn’t know I had until I lost them.”
16. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say.
17. “I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn’t know I had until I lost them.”
18. “You know, as a kind of ‘it sucks we got attacked, but at least there are desserts’ thing.”
19. “How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.”
20. “Blood is darker than blush, even though one consists of the other.”
21. “not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
22. “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, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.”
23. “and pretend that this is all there is.”
24. “Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it’s who the Candor think I am.”
25. “But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we’re people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.”
26. “people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.”
27. “Thank you for your honesty.”
28. “Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. —From the Candor faction manifesto”
29. “I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored — for good, I hope.”
30. “I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don’t see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can’t be; someone I can be.”
31. “Ruthlessness and cold logic, it seems, can accomplish almost anything.”
32. “I love you.” He frowns.
“Say it again.”
“Tobias,” I say. “I love you.”
33. “Before I chose Dauntless…I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.”
34. “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
35. “You are the cure.”
36. “It shouldn’t have happened. It shouldn’t have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it’s okay is a liar.”
37. “When you are entrusted with all the information, you have to decide how much other people should know,”
38. “I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”
39. “I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn’t looking?”
40. “Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”
41. “They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias’s true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.”
42. “You will know that it is time when there are many among you whose minds appear to be more flexible than the others. The name you should give those people is Divergent.”
43. “I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.”
44. “The value of a sacrifice lies in its necessity,not in throwing your life away”
45. “Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”
46. “Tired, not just of living, but of existing.”
47. “I have done bad things. I can’t take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.”
48. “I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?”
49. “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”
50. “Do not call attention to yourself,”
51. “And there were some things I didn’t know I had until I lost them.”
52. “It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
53. “Sometimes people just want to be happy even if it’s not real.”
54. “I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you”
55. “Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.”
56. “People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets.”
57. “We’re all right, you know,” he says. “You and me. Okay?”
58. “Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged.”
59. “It is so strange to see two people you have known separately join together.”
60. “I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was almost too late.”
61. “I feel bare. I didn’t realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.”
62. “Dauntless is the cruelest of the five They tear each other to pieces. . . .”
63. “Fighting for survival in a shattered world… the truth is her only hope.”
64. “Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.”
65. “I didn’t know what I would do when I found you. But it was always my intention to save you.”
66. “His voice is rough; it could be the thing that breaks me.”
67. “Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.”
68. “How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-”
69. “We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”
70. “I think they’re going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.”
71. “You’re too important to just… die.”
72. “I can’t tell him I need him. I can’t need him, period — or really, we can’t need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?”
73. “Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
74. “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.”
75. “I didn’t mean to reopen closing wounds.”
76. “Sometimes, if you want the truth you have to demand it.”
77. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?”
78. “So why is it so difficult for me to forgive myself?”
79. “You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are.”
80. “We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?”
81. “Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
82. “You’re the bravest person I’ve ever met. Stay here. Let yourself mend.”
83. “Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.”
84. “I think about pressing myself against him, but I can’t, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.”
85. “Blood is a strange color. It’s darker than you expect it to be.”
86. “In order to have peace, we must first have trust.”
87. “You sadistic pansycake.”
88. “I don’t have a bullet in my head, do I? So I’m fine.”
89. “I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand”
90. “We believe in a God who gives peace and cherishes it,” she says. “So we give peace to each other, and cherish it.”
91. “I decide to do what I always do when I’m not sure what’s going on: I act like everyone else.”
92. “Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,”
93. “Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.”
94. “And then the screaming begins.”
95. “Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.”
96. “I can pretend to be brave, but I’m not”
97. “Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.”
98. “I believe you’re still in there,” he says against my mouth. “Come back.”
99. “I didn’t realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.”
100. “Sleep,” he says. “I’ll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously.”
101. “I used to think that cruelty required malice, but that is not true.”
102. “We live in a dangerous world, and I am not so attached to life that I will do anything to survive.”
103. “Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.”
104. “Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart — I know. It is often in mine.”
105. “My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.”
106. “So I am halfway in and halfway out, as always.”
107. “The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature itself—or”
108. “I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren’t on your way to die.”
109. “Only boys who have been handsome from a young age have that arrogance in their smile.”
110. “I’ll be your family now.”
111. “Sleep,” he says. “I’ll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.”
“With what?”
“My bar hands, obviously.”
In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, “I love you, Tris.”
112. “How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me — the boy whose real name is powerful enough to keep us alive in a train car full of enemies?”
113. “The way he talks about getting out—it’s like he thinks we’re trapped.”
114. “I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.”
115. “Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you,” I say. “Controlling you is.”
116. “Evil depends on where you’re standing.”
117. “You have failed. You can’t control me!”
118. “You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”
119. “He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.”
120. “I don’t believe that what comes after depends on anything i do at all.”
121. “I do not dare to disturb it with the truth, because I am too busy clinging to it for support.”
122. “You die, I die too.”
123. “And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.”
