More quotes by Veronica Roth, Divergent

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating."He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."
"Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option."
"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
"Politeness is deception in pretty packaging."
"Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.''Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake."