Allegiant (Divergent, #3)

by Veronica Roth

“It’s fine,” I say, though it’s not.

Real

I don’t need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

I know from experience that confidence alone can get a person into a forbidden place.

Death is so quick, so certain. Where we’re going now, nothing is certain.

it—I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction—no, love before faction, always.

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil, like Jeanine . . . or power to do good, like what we’re doing. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”

People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

“Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.”

“But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they’re already looking for, that’s all.”

It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace.”

If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

You know, there’s a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it’s coward.”