Veronica Roth

“I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine," I say. "I'm fine now," I say again, this time for myself.I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.I don't.”

“Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.”

“No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.”

“My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.”

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”

“One choice can transform you!”

“This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.”

“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.”

“I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.”

“Yes," I say. "Three of these flying birds."I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.”

“People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.”

“We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.”

“He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.”

“He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.”

“I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.”

“I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.”

“There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.”

“It must require bravery to be honest all the time.”

“His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”

“What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.”

“Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.”

“Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.”

“I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.”

“I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.”

“It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle in my body singing at the same pitch.Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.”

“I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.”

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

“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”

“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.”

“But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.”

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

“He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.”

“feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.”

“Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.”

“I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.I am Divergent. And I can’t be controlled.”

“Creemos enla valentía. Creemos en tomar acciones. Creemos en la liberarnos del miedo y en la adquisición de habilidades necesarias para obligar a que lo malos salga de nuestro mundo para que el bien pueda prosperar y florecer”

“-Terrorífico -dice Will con fingida seriedad-. Esa es mi chica. Dura como bola de algodón.”

“Then everyone can call you Six.”“Four and Six,” I say.”

“Cambié la cobardía por crueldad, cambié la debilidad por ferocidad.”

“El me dijo una vez que fuese valiente, y aunque he permanecido inmóvil mientras cuchillos se dirigian hacia mi cara y he saltado de un techo, nunca pensé que necesitaria valentía en los más pequeños momentos de mi vida.”

“Reconozco Eric por lo que es: un Sabiduría disfrazado de Intrepidez, un genio, así como un sádico, un cazador de lo Divergente.”

“No soy una persona que deja que las cosas intrascendentes, como los chicos y las experiencias cercanas a la muerte la detengan.”

“Esa chica quien me dejo lanzarle cuchillos en lugar de su amigo, quien golpeó a mi padre con un cinturón para protegerme… esa chica desinteresada, ¿No eres tú?”

“Tengo una teoría de que el desinterés y la valentía no son tan diferentes. Toda tu vida has sido entrenada para olvidarte de ti misma, así que cuando estás en peligro, eso se vuelve tu primer instinto. Yo podría pertenecer a Abnegación con la misma facilidad.”

“We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.”

“He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too.‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’Slowly I nod.”

“En algún lugar hay una chica que trata de entender por lo que las personas están pasando, que acepta que las personas hacen cosas malas y que la desesperación las lleva a los lugares más oscuros que ellos hayan imaginado. Juro que ella existe, y le duele el chico arrepentido que veo delante de mí.Pero si la veo, no la reconocería.”

“Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.”

“Quien sea que él es, yo le gusto. Es fácil de admitirlo ahora, en la oscuridad, después de todo lo que ocurrió. Él no es dulce o amable o algo en particular. Sin embargo, él es listo y desafiante, y a pesar de que él me salvó, me trata como si fuera fuerte. Esto es todo lo que necesito saber.”

“Mi padre dice que esos quienes quieren el poder y lo consiguen, viven en el terror por perderlo. Es por eso que tenernos que darle el poder a esos que no lo quieren.”