Dauntless Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Stupid, Thinking, Twelve

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• Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

  Veronica Roth

  Divergent, Who Cares, Care

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.48, HarperCollins UK

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• But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

  Veronica Roth

  Fearless, Saws

  "Divergent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2011.

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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

  Veronica Roth

  Air, Divergent, Feels

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• 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

  Heart, Pride, Leaving

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• I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

  Veronica Roth

  Thinking, Titles, Speak

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• 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

  Moving, Elderly, Long

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Faith, War

  'Marmion' (1808) canto 5, st. 12 ('Lochinvar' st. 1)

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• We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Hero, Burning, Remember

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• 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

  Decision, Leaving, Becoming

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• Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

  Veronica Roth

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.70, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Country, Blood, Tyrants

  "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" l. 57 (1751)

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• We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori

  Veronica Roth

  Allies, Needs, Don't Need You

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• I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

  Veronica Roth

  Bravery, Needs, Small Moments

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• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Adversity, Hands

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing especially brave about wandering dark streets with no flashlight, but we are not supposed to need help, even from light. We are supposed to be capable of anything. I like that. Because their might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.

  Veronica Roth

  Dark, Gun, Light

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.68, Harper Collins

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• I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.

  Veronica Roth

  Important, Lessons, Taught

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• Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

  Veronica Roth

  Fighting, People, Soldier

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• 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

  Challenges, Religion, Lips

  Robert Montgomery (1854). “The Poetical Works of Robert Montgomery ...”, p.186

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• 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

  War, Makeup, Would Be

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• 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

  Teacher, Community, Leader

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Four: A Divergent Collection”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• 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

  Needs, Elbows, Crowds

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• I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.

  Veronica Roth

  Brother, Father, Gun

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• 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

  Tattoo, Blue, Jeans

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent, Book 3)”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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