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Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom.. and as hard as I try, I cannot kill it.

I fall in love with this life all over again. It's only when I try to live it myself that I have trouble. It never feels genuine.

One choice will define you.

I want her, in a way I haven't felt before, not just some kind of mindless physical drive but a real, specific desire. Not for someone, just for her.

I almost laugh. My great act of heroism, the only important thing I have ever done, and they think I was working for the Erudite when I did it.

So if loyalty is impossible, what do I strive for?

The responsibility to conduct the

Four sets his hand on my back and says, Welcome to Dauntless.

There is much I am happy to forget

Fear Wakes You Up" -Four

Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world ... the truth is her only hope.

I chose Dauntless not because they are perfect, but because they are alive, they are free.

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

So what difference does that make, meaning or not meaning to do something? Accident or on purpose, the result is the same,

Can I be forgiven for all that I've done here?
I don't know. I don't know.
Please.

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.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? ( ... ) But please, when you see an opportunity ... ruin them

If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

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 in the eye'?

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

It's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear

We can be mended.

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

My opponent is Peter.

I may be in pain, but I am not weak.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

( ... ) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

Ruthlessness and cold logic, it seems, can accomplish almost anything.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

There is a reason you don't know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb.
Of course she would.

The goal of my life isn't just ... to be happy.
'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?

When you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly.

My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.'
'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

How is it possible to live the same story twice from different vantage points?

I love you." He frowns.
"Say it again."
"Tobias," I say. "I love you.

I have to get out.

I don't know. But we may not have any other option.

I brush her hair away from her face, gently, so I don't wake her. She doesn't need my protection. She's strong enough on her own.

Adapt. Adapt faster, adapt better, adapt to things that no man should have to.

Something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it." - Tris

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?

He is stronger than anyone I know, & warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, & will keep, for the rest of my life.

Weapons Lab. Holy words.

Either his family doesn't like to come together, or he wasn't originally Dauntless. Which faction could he have come from?

Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Uriah shouts, Gross!

the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is

We believe in the ordinary acts of bravery.

Pain can't make me tell you. Truth serum can't make me tell you. Simulations can't make me tell you. I'm immune to all three.

Just do what you're supposed to.

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.

I didn't care about Suzao - in fact, I was planning to spit on his funeral pyre just to hear it sizzle - but

I have a theory that selfness and bravery aren't all that differnt

You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"

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So now we all know," says Four, quietly, "that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation." His mouth curls into a smile.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.

Independent," I say, "and uninvolved. Must be nice

Despite the fact that we climbed a few flights of stairs, I still feel like I'm plunging to the earth.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.

That would be stupid." "True. But in keeping with your 'act first, think second' behavioral trend.

My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes.

It's like the landscape is an interrupted sentence, one side dangling in the air, unfinished, and the other, a completely different subject.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

My parents ... They died today ... They died for me. -Tris
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four

From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now

I'LL FIGHT THE BAD DREAMS OFF IF THEY COME TO GET YOU

No wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.

But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.

I am brave, I am selfless, I am Divergent.

The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.

Maybe just as skin on a hand grows together after pain in repetition, a person does too. But I don't want to become a calloused man.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what's making her strong.

When you are entrusted with all the information, you have to decide how much other people should know,

I am selfish. I am brave.

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, I like your hair that way.

The bullet clicks into the chamber.

I will not belong to anyone but myself.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

I choose to defend what I believe in.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

They don't want you to act a certain way. They want you to think a certain way.