Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Divergent series)

Notes from the reader: replace the concept of "factions" from the book with any label you may have put on yourself to help find like-minded people to fully understand what the author is saying. We all have our factions, even if they're chosen rather than forced upon us. (E.g.: nerd, jock... stoner?)

--13--

"From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know now."

--13--

'"I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!"'

--67--

"I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint."

--71--

"What do I need, to overcome my fears? 

I know the answer, of course I do: I need to deny them the power to control me. I need to know that I am stronger than they are."

--91--

"I wonder if that fear still creeps up on her now, though she worked so hard to face it--I wonder if fears ever really go away or if they just lose their power over us."

--95--

"Tobias can take care of himself, but in an attack, surviving is an accident. It doesn't take skill to stand in a place where no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see. It is all luck, or providence, depending on what you believe."

--125--

"They created us, they shaped our world, they told us what to believe.

If they told us what to believe and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?"

--134--

"I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. 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."

--192--

"Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go--which is the way I carry my mother now."

--219--

'"It's a little rudimentary, but this book helped to teach me what it is to be human. . . To be such a complicated, mysterious piece of biological machinery, and more amazing still, to have the capacity to analyze that machinery! That is a special thing, unprecedented in all of evolutionary history. Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human."'

--262--

"I was so used to lying instead of telling difficult truths that I welcomed the chance to deceive her."

--271--

'"I never said this was all I was ever going to do. It's not always wise to strike as hard as you can at the first opportunity. This is a long race, not a sprint."'

--276--

'"I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. You would think that I would have learned by now--such a place does not exist."'

--278--

"I sit on top of the sweater and examine my knuckles. A few of them are split from punching Caleb, and dotted with faint bruises. It seems fitting that the blow would leave a mark on both of us. That's how the world works."

--315--

"My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me. He states his opinions as if they're facts, and somehow his complete lack of doubt makes you believe him."

--316--

"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."'

--345-6--

"Evelyn tried to control  people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious--she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don't need force to keep people under your thumb. They stay there willingly."

--371--

'"If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. . . So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not."'

--371-2--

"Then I thought of how strong I have become, how secure I feel with the person I now am, and how all along the way he has told me that I am brave, I am respected, I am loved and worth loving."

--372--

"I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

I fell in love with him. But I don't stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."

A Brave New World by Alduous Huxley

---42---

"Stability. No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability."

---49---

"Government'san affair of sitting, not hitting. You rule with the brains and the buttocks, never with the fists."

---64---

"Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority."

---65---

"The mockery made him feel like an outsider; and feeling like an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self conciously on his dignity."

---70---

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly--they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced."

---90---

"But I do. . . It makes me feels as though. . . as though I were more me, if you see what I mean. More on my own, not so completely a part of something else. Not just a cell in the social body. "

---148---

"Murder kills only the individual--and, after all, what is an individual?We can make a new one with the greatest ease-- as many as we like.  Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes Society itself. "

---157---

"Success went fizzily to Bernard's head, and in the process completely reconciled him (as any good intoxicant should do) to a world which, up until then, he had found very unsatisfactory. In so far as it recognized him as important, the order of things was good."

---221---

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

---222-3---

"Only an Epsilon can be expected to make Epsilon sacrifices, for the good reason that for him they aren't sacrifices; they're the line of least resistance. His conditioning has laid down rails along which he's got to run. He can't help himself; He's fordoomed. Even after decanting he's still inside a bottle--an invisible bottle of infantile and embryonic fixations. Each one of us, of course, goes through life inside a bottle. But if we happen to be Alphas, our bottles are, relatively speaking, enormous. We should suffer acutely if we were confined in a narrower space."

---223---

"The optimum population is modelled on the iceberg--eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above."

---228---

"One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson--paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too."

---233---

"Yes, we inevitably turn to God; for this religious sentiment is of its nature so pure, so delightful to the soul the experiences it, that it makes up to us for all our other losses."

---235-6---

"The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men."

Misc. TV

These are all TV Shows that I feel need more quotes before they can have their own separate entry. Hopefully most of them will get their day. Until then....

***Alphas***

S1E11

Gary- "Yeah Bill, I am in charge when no one else is here."

Stanton Parish- "Society's acceptance is a prison disguised as a palace."

***American Horror Story***

S5E5

Liz- "You see everything when the world doesn't see you."

The Countess- "We have two selves. One the world needs us to be: compliant. 
And the shadow. Ignore it and life is forever suffering"

***Arrow***

S9E7

Oliver- Thea, I don't have the right to be mad at anyone for keeping secrets. But I'm sorry that I made you feel as though you had to.

***Constantine***

S1E7

Manny- "What's it like? Pain."

Imogen- "It comes in waves. You feel helpless. You can't fight it. It becomes about making it to the other side, shrinking your world down to one fine point. When that wave melts away, you feel relief. Just for a moment, till it comes back to remind you."

***Doctor Who***

S9E7

Kate- "You left us in an impossible situation, Doctor."

Capaldi- "Yes, I know. It's called peace."

***Game of Thrones***

S6E4

High Sparrow- "It was all part of a story. A story I was telling myself about who I was. A collection of lies that would disappear in the light."

***Once Upon a Time***

S4E19

Corella- "Enjoy the upper hand while it's still on your wrist."

***The Player***

S1E2

Alex- "No more hypocrites on hills sending us to die and 
then resenting us when we don't."

Darkest Powers Series by Kelley Armstrong

***The Summoning***

“In real life, though, people don’t change overnight.”

“Anyone ever tell you your sense of timing really sucks?”

“That’s why I don’t play the drums.”

***The Awakening***

"In a good drama, the protagonist never takes the straight line to the prize. She must set out, hit an obstacle, detour around it, hit another, take a longer detour, another obstacle, another detour. . . . Only when she has built up the strength of character to deserve the prize does she finally succeed."

"No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be."

Avatar (movie)

"Ya see, ya see? They're just pissing on us without even giving us the courtesy of calling it rain." –Grace

"It is hard to fill a cup that is already full" –Mo'at

"Outcast. Betrayer. Alien. I was in the place the eye does not see." –Jake (Narrating)

"But sooner or later, you always have to wake up." –Jake (Narrating)

"If Grace is there with you - look in her memories - she can show you the world we come from. There's no green there. They killed their Mother, and they're gonna do the same here." –Jake

"Freaking daisy cutters."– Trudy

Maximum Ride Series (pt 1) by James Patterson

***The Angel Experiment***

“Life is a test. It’s all a test. Sometimes you have to get through it, and then later everything makes more sense.”

“Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?”

“Every journey begins with one step.”

“You never know until you know.”

“Never fight fair—that’s not how you win. Use every dirty trick you can. Expect pain. Expect to get hurt. If you’re surprised by the pain, you just lost.” Fav

“Knowledge is a terrible burden. It’s a two-edged sword. It might help you, but it might put you in danger greater than anything you’ve faced so far.” Fav

  “A web of answers is out there. If you can find the portal.” Fav

***School's Out Forever***

“You are a fridge with wings. We’re freaking ballet dancers.”

“You have to respect your enemy. Never, ever underestimate them. The second you do, they’ll squash you. Be smart about them. Respect their abilities, even if they don’t respect yours.”

“You’re kidding, right? Please tell me you have a stronger motive for me than ‘fair is fair’. Life isn’t fair. Nothing is fair, ever. That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Speak By Laurie Halse Anderson

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside—walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know.”

.

“Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they’ll let you become an adult. I hope it’s worth it.”