“The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Because you're from Abnegation,' he says, 'and it's when your acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The most ridiculous part is, in any other faction it would be brave of us to tell someone what happened. But here...in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him. Which, as I recall,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can’t jump off… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“WE BELIEVE in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives on person to stand up for another WE BELIEVE in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“So they don’t go away?” “Sometimes they do. And sometimes new fears replace them. But becoming fearless isn’t the point. That’s impossible.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.”… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become... I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries. That’s what he could be, if he trusted himself… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Despite the depravity I see in Dauntless, though, I could not leave it. It isn't only because the thought of living factionless,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Standing alone at the railing is Four. Though he's not an initiate anymore, most of the Dauntless use this day to come… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“We're sorry for frightening you, Tris,' another voice says, 'but anonymity is integral to our operation. We mean you no harm.' 'Let… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met her,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless". — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Dauntless is the cruelest of the five They tear each other to pieces . . . . Erudite is the coldest of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?"… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Now i remember why I chose Dauntless. Not because they were brave or anything. But because they were free.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something. Overcompensating.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Mas lembre-se, já agora, que por vezes as pessoas que oprimimos tornam-se mais poderosas do que nós gostaríamos.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“am aware of how little space there is between us—six inches at most. That space feels charged with electricity. I feel like it should… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Oh, good,” I say, a sour taste in my mouth. “Heroism is what I was focused on. Not, you know, trying not to die.” — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Caleb frowns at him. "How old are you, anyway?" "Eighteen." "And you don't think you're too old to be with my little sister?" Tobias… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
