Top 45 Divergent Tris Quotes
#1. Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of
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#2. Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is?
Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called ... Divergent.
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#3. Morning," I say.
"Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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#4. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
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#5. I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself ... I can't love her.
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#6. You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.
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#7. 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. He kisses me harder.
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#8. It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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#9. The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite
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#10. Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris
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#12. What's your name."
"Um ... " I don't know why I hesitate, but Betrise just doesn't sound right anymore. I have a chance to be remade here. A new fraction, a new name.
"Tris," I say firmly.
"Welcome to dauntless," he says to me.
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#13. I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories-lives-for control of the experiments. That he would trade them without even thinking of alternatives-without feeling that he needed to bother to save them.
They're damaged, after all.
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#14. The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.
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#15. 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 least I feel strong.
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#16. You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.'
He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.
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#17. I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. You would think that I would have learned by now - such a place does not exist.
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#19. Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed.
Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.
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#20. You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I tried."
"Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."
"You're very good-looking."
He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.
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#21. She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move
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#22. The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in - gray.
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#23. What's your name?
Um ...
Think about it. You don't get to pick again.
Tris.
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#24. Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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#25. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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#26. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
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#27. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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#28. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
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#29. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.
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#30. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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#31. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
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#32. It's getting more difficult to be wise," he says, laughing into my ear.
I smile at him. "I think that's how it's
supposed to be.
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#34. I throw my arms out to the side and imagine that I am flying ... my heart beats fast, I can't scream and I can't breathe. I also feel everything, buzzing as if I am charged with electricity. I AM PURE ADRENALINE - TRIS
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#35. You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don't care."
I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his.
It is the best moment of my life.
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#36. He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His
breaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. He
smells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.
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#38. Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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#39. It's not about Al," I snap. "It's about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyone
calls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It's ... I
can't ...
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#40. The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.
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#41. No wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.
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#43. Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
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#44. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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#45. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
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