Knowledge is power. Power to do evil…or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

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

Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don’t. They don’t want you to act a certain way, they want you...

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

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

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

It doesn’t prove anything except that you’re bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

Uznajemy zwyczajne akty męstwa, odwagę, która każe jednej osobie stanąć w obronie drugiej’.

I didn’t know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

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

I close my eyes. I don’t expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends,...

You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?’ ‘Something unfavorable,I assume.’ I laugh.’ Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.

If we’re afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where’s there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.

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

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.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me–they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.

We’ve all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don’t want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and...

Sí, a veces la vida es una mierda, pero ,sabes por qué aguanto? Por los momentos que no apestan. El truco está en darse cuenta de ellos cuando vienen

Siempre hay algo que se aprende, siempre se aprende algo importante

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. He said the poor didn’t need policing; they needed help,...

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

I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his neck to the small of his back and put it under his shirt....

Eric called Al’s suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother’s death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn’t just brave that she died for me; it is brave that...

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

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.

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

Damn,’ someone behind me says. ‘I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

What is wrong with you?’ I shake my head. ‘Pull it together.’ And that’s what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at...

I decide to keep the shirt to remind me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn’t come to it on our own, is it still true?

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

If she’s in pain now she doesn’t show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

I hear something in her words that’s right, but it’s hard to believe her right now.

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true...

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

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

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

Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide – they...

‘Okay. Then… I can talk. Ask me something.’ ‘Okay.’ He laughs shakily in my ear. ‘Why is your heart racing Tris?’ I cringe and say, ‘Well, I… I barely know you. I barely know you...

I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

I’ll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

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

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I can’t imagine it’s easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.