Divergent quotes

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◆ 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 Roth100

◆ You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

- Veronica Roth - Divergent99

◆ Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents' paths, your parents' rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ 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 Roth99

◆ I have to get out.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ The ability to think isn't exclusive to erudite

- Veronica Roth99

◆ In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God's creation and found purpose in the madness. When that day came, I didn't allow other people to dictate how I should feel or act. I learned there was no shame in imperfection because history had shown being different had the power to change perspectives and eventually the world. This is when I realized that flaws had responsibility. This was the day that I learned I was truly BLESSED.

- Shannon L. Alder99

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

- Veronica Roth99

◆ 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 to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ It's been so long since someone said my name that way, like it was a revelation and not a threat.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ But becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it, that's the point.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ If he is a coward, it isn't because he doesn't enjoy pain. It is because he refuses to act.

- Veronica Roth99