
Top 72 I Am Divergent Quotes
#1. I am not a perfect Dauntless member; I am someone who believes that more than one virtue should be prized; I am Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#3. I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#4. I know what's true and what's not. I am Divergent, so I am not nobody, there's no such thing as "safe,
Veronica Roth
#5. I have a message for the Divergent" I am Divergent. "This is not a negotiation" No, it is not. "It is a warning" I understand. "Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters ... " I will. " ... this will happen again" It will never happen again.
Veronica Roth
#6. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
Veronica Roth
#7. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
Veronica Roth
#9. the cause of Divergence and come out and help you, that was . . ." "'Divergent
Veronica Roth
#10. 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
Veronica Roth
#11. 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.
Veronica Roth
#12. At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.
Donald Rumsfeld
#13. Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.
Veronica Roth
#14. Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.
Veronica Roth
#16. I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.
Carl Rogers
#17. 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.
Veronica Roth
#18. There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
Veronica Roth
#20. 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.
Veronica Roth
#21. In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark
Veronica Roth
#23. For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.
Veronica Roth
#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.
Veronica Roth
#26. 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.
Veronica Roth
#28. I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.
Veronica Roth
#29. Discussing a problem with yourself is almost never a good way to secure a divergent viewpoint.
Jim Butcher
#30. Here, I've learned to defend myself,
I've learned to be stronger,
but one thing I haven't learned, won't let myself learn, is how to enjoy causing someone else pain. If I'm going to become Dauntless, I'm going to do it on my terms, even if that means that a part of me will always be a Stiff.
Veronica Roth
#31. Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
Veronica Roth
#32. I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
Veronica Roth
#34. But that would put me on a path that would make me totally divergent from who I am. I don't have to go through the heartache many other people go through, of figuring out what makes them "wealthy." I know what brings me joy.
Ben Sollee
#35. I feel like, the smaller I become, the safer I am.
Veronica Roth
#36. The next morning, I am silly and light. Every time I push the smile from my face, it fights its way back. Eventually I stop suppressing it.
Veronica Roth
#37. I don't have an answer to that, and I don't even know if he's right about me. Am I wired like the Abnegation, or the Dauntless? Maybe the answer is neither. Maybe I am wired like the Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#38. 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
Veronica Roth
#39. You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
P244
Veronica Roth
#40. Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?
Veronica Roth
#41. I don't want to be just one thing. I want to be brave and selfless and intelligent and honest and kind.
Veronica Roth
#42. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
Veronica Roth
#43. One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him
Veronica Roth
#44. Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138)
Veronica Roth
#45. 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.
Veronica Roth
#46. 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.
Veronica Roth
#47. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
Veronica Roth
#48. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Half of bravery is perspective. The first time I did this, it was one of the hardest things I had ever done. Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks that most people will in a lifetime.
Veronica Roth
#50. In 'Divergent,' the story is about Beatrice Prior, and I play her brother.
Ansel Elgort
#51. I have this idea that writing is all about divergent thinking colliding with a hurricane of emotions.
R. YS Perez
#52. Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
Veronica Roth
#53. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.
Auliq Ice
#54. Grade A objectivity won't come from those who are closest to us. It will come from outsiders. That's where we'll find divergent thinking, unexpected questions, novel ideas, differences of opinion, and added expertise.
David Sturt
#55. I guess I am what I have always been. Not Dauntless, not Abnegation, not factionless. Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#56. At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
Ray Stannard Baker
#57. I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.
Veronica Roth
#58. I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.
Veronica Roth
#59. I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no reason. - Al
Veronica Roth
#60. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Veronica Roth
#61. 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
Veronica Roth
#62. Some will wear masks their entire life because they care about what other people think, while others remove the mask to be who they truly are. The difference between the two is not the ability to trust others, but to trust in God.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?" It sounds like she's smirking. "Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
Veronica Roth
#64. The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.
Niels Henrik Abel
#65. What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie?
Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
Veronica Roth
#66. By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
Veronica Roth
#67. We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
Alain De Botton
#68. Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
Veronica Roth
#69. I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.
Evan Daugherty
#70. You will know that it is time when there are many among you whose minds appear to be more flexible than the others. The name you should give those people is Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#71. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.
Tris Prior
#72. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
Veronica Roth
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