Dauntless Quotes
24 quotes
"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."
"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."
"I regret..."Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?""Dauntless,"he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."Her."
"I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.""
"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."
"When some women felt fear, they covered it with an iron grate of courage, I thought. Men might be dangerous, but they were very often unperceptive. If fear only rumbled through a woman’s soul and glittered through her eyes, then perhaps the man she feared would not be aware it was there at all. He might even think that she was entirely confident, dauntless. He might believe her veneer of bravery."
"The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over."
"But you should know that about Dauntless- girl, guy, whatever, it doesn't matter here. What matters is what you've got in your gut."
"But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Don't laugh. A girl can dream."
"....I'd rather travel in Cargo-nanoships than a Bullet-train to reach my target."
"Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is."
"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent"
"I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless."
"I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch"
"A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy."
"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."
"Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone."
"maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear"
"Don't hide yourself. Stand up, keep your head high and show them what you got!"
"We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear."