Veronica Roth

Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but i feel like when you believe something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can't help yourself.

I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.

You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244

I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.

Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.

You know,' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

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

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.

I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,

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.

And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias "Four