The best Quotes by Veronica Roth

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

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

It's when you’re acting selflessly that you are at your bravest.

My father used to say that sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

Tori: "Your results were inconclusive."
Tris Prior: "That's impossible."
Tori: "That's not impossible, it's just extremely rare. You're able to control and conquer your fears. They call it divergent."

Today you will take a test to help you discover who you truly are. The only way you can survive is for each of you to claim your rightful place.

Everyone's afraid of something, but not you. Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up. That's what makes you dangerous.

The system removes the threat of anyone exercising their independent will. Divergents threaten that system. It won't be safe until they're removed.

100 years ago, after the war, our founders created a system they believed would create lasting peace. They divided a society into five factions. Everyone is tested to determine who we are and where we belong.

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Fear doesn't need conquering. Fear tells you where the edge is. Fear is a good thing.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.