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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. -- Veronica Roth
I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent. -- Veronica Roth
It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free. -- Veronica Roth
I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable. -- Veronica Roth
Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine. -- Veronica Roth
This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "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 Roth
Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear. -- Veronica Roth
We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori -- Veronica Roth
I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be. -- Veronica Roth
I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless". -- Veronica Roth
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going. -- Veronica Roth
A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn't have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you. -- Veronica Roth
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless. -- Veronica Roth
I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. -- Veronica Roth
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. -- Veronica Roth
I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these. -- Veronica Roth
No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve?" "And a half," he says. -- Veronica Roth
Before I chose Dauntless...I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to. -- Veronica Roth
I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one? -- Veronica Roth
You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist. -- Veronica Roth
I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision. -- Veronica Roth
I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore? -- Veronica Roth
Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them. -- Veronica Roth
Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent. -- Veronica Roth
And he's right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel; the Erudite, intelligent but vain; the Amity, peaceful but passive; the Candor, honest but inconsiderate; the Abnegation, selfless but stifling. -- Veronica Roth
If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it," he says. "Including me." "No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings." Christina pokes his arm. "Don't you know your own faction? -- Veronica Roth
I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong. -- Veronica Roth
Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot herWell, half of half of our faction.""In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar," Lynn says." -- Veronica Roth
Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you?" "Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was... -- Veronica Roth
I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking? -- Veronica Roth
Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.'â?¦ â??Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.'â?¦ â??Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.'â?¦ â??Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.'â?¦ â??And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless. -- Veronica Roth
But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, "Dauntless," "Erudite," "Divergent," "Allegiant," or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us. -- Veronica Roth
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. -- Veronica Roth
Put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. -- William Shakespeare
You chose us. Now we have to choose you. -- Veronica Roth
A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. -- Veronica Roth
So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar. -- Walter Scott
Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. -- Orison Swett Marden
We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear. -- Veronica Roth
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. -- William Shakespeare
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
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. -- Veronica Roth
If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward. -- Veronica Roth
Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. -- Thomas Gray
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution. -- William Shakespeare
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
I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I was selfish." I say. "You were selfish? You aren't anymore?" "Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even. -- Veronica Roth
Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth. -- Robert Montgomery
If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor. -- Jane Porter

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