Best Quotes from Divergent by Veronica Roth with Page Numbers

"You’re the one who has to live with your choice... Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will."

"I have to get out. It’s a strong thought. I feel its strength ringing inside me like the toll of a bell."

"You will find your own path, make your own rules."

"Your mother said to me once that she felt like inertia had carried her to Abnegation. It was the path of least resistance."

"Sometimes I know people are lying just because of the way the words feel when they press into me, uncomfortable and wrong."

"The truth is, I want my choice to drive a knife right through my father’s heart, to pierce him with as much pain and embarrassment and disappointment as possible."

"I am free."

"What would be stopping them from forming groups, just like we have? It’s in our nature."

"It doesn’t do anything obvious, but it might be able to do something in here."

"I have to get out. It’s a chant now, a mantra, the only thing I have left to hold on to."

"For most of the Dauntless, they meet their best friends during initiation, their girlfriends, boyfriends, whatever. Enemies, too. But you seem determined not to have any of those things."

"I came here because I was ready to stop listening to that voice."

"What matters is what you’ve got in your gut."

"You should know that about Dauntless—girl, guy, whatever, it doesn’t matter here."

"I’m not really into violence for no reason."

"I may have chosen Dauntless as a haven, but I’m not just surviving here, I’m excelling."

"You did well. Your climbing skills are maybe a little wanting, but you still got out of the simulation quickly, like last time."

"It’s okay to not be okay, you know."

"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."

"I am Dauntless."

"That chance to make a difference in Dauntless appeals to the Abnegation parts of me, the parts that are lingering around, occasionally demanding attention."

"Maybe bravery is the highest form of wisdom, the acknowledgment that life can and should be lived without fear."

"True bravery instead of stupidity and brutality... prepare people physically and mentally to defend the weak against the strong."

"To align myself with no one in particular. To live under the radar, and free. That’s what I really want—to shed all the people who want to form and shape me, one by one, and learn instead to form and shape myself."

"I can be more than any faction right here in Dauntless; maybe I already am more, and it’s time to show it."

"We’ll be doing a combination of instruction and skills tests... to teach you what you’ll need to know if you make it through this program, but also to see how quickly you learn."

"All I have, I realize, are the small moments of rebellion I’m able to manage... the tattoo that Tori is drawing on my back, the one that might declare me to be Divergent, is one of those moments."

"It’s easier now, in Dauntless black, than it ever was in Abnegation gray, and maybe that’s why I chose Dauntless as a haven."

"You can refuse categorization... a word you don’t speak without care, because those people often die in mysterious circumstances."

"I want to make sure we still know how to think for ourselves, think about more than the next surge of adrenaline. Or just think, period."

"Even though you found out about Marcus, you aren’t giving me that look. Like I’m… a kicked puppy, or something."

"Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone, even your Stiff family, needs to learn."

"You’re brave. And even though you found out about Marcus… you aren’t giving me that look. Like I’m… a kicked puppy, or something."

"You’re dead on. It’s not about Al, it’s about everyone watching! ...Why not do it if everyone calls you a hero afterward?"

"Maybe that’s the problem—it’s all one-sided right now, because I know her, I know what she’s afraid of and what she loves and what she hates, but all she knows about me is what I’ve told her."

"Nothing will change without action, no matter how much I want to keep to myself."

"I’m trying to find balance between who I am and who I’m supposed to be."

"Sometimes I just want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

"I could belong in Abnegation just as easily."

"You can’t be a pawn... But I’m not sure what I should be instead."

It’s unheard of for a Stiff to join Dauntless, even.

Sometimes they’re the same thing.

You don’t get to pick again.

Welcome to Dauntless.

Careful what you say to anyone, in this faction that values all the wrong things.

Standing up for yourself, even in small moments, is the height of bravery.

You look different.

I want to ask her why she would get one of her worst fears tattooed on her body.

Maybe she’s not ashamed of her fears the way I’m ashamed of mine.

You look good, Tris.