Divergent by Veronica Roth

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?)

--43--

"In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. . . More than family, our factions are where we belong. . . Apart from them, we would not survive."

--45--

"His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long."

--57--

"I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave."

--60--

"A new place, a new name. I can be remade here."

--69--

"He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice."

--75--

"Maybe my problem isn't that I can't go home. I will miss my mother and father and Caleb and evening firelight and he clack of my mother's knitting needles, but that is not the onlu reason for this hollow feeling in my stomach.

My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn't belong there."

--79--

"I lower the gun. There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage--in controlling something, period."

--81--

"Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm."

--87--

"It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a single thread from a complex work of embroidery. But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."

--94--

"I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. . . I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind."

--97--

"Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his free time sharpening his knives."

--117--

"I clench my teeth as the tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them."

--128--

"Besides, Robert. The goal of my life isn't just. . . to be happy."

"Wouldn't it be easier if it was though?"

--176--

"If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong."

--205--

"Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing just feels better right now."

--219--

"Still, there is a part of me that groans, I have to wait for seven people? It is a strange blend of terror and eageress, unfamiliar until now."

--221--

"My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if chared with electricity. I am pure adrenaline."

--239--

'"So they don't go away?"

"Sometimes they do. And sometimes new fears replace them. . . But becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to be free from it, that's the point."

I nod. I used to think the Dauntless were fearless. That is how they seemed, anyway. But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.'

--294--

"But my mother would tell me that people are flawed and I should be lenient with them."

--299-300--

"Somewhere inside me is a merciful, forgiving person. Somewhere there is a girl who tries to understand what people are going through, who accepts that pepole do evil things and that desperation leads them to darker places than they ever imagined. I swear she exists, and she hurts for the repentant boy I see in front of me.

But if I saw her, I wouldn't recognize her."

--311--

"I fear his shifting moods. They show me somehing unstable inside of him, and instability is dangerous."

--312--

"Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. They want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them."

--313-4--

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. . . Sometimes I just. . . want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

--336--

"I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct."

--441-2--

"Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it's not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. . . But our minds move in a dozen different directions. We can't be confined to one way of thinking and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them."

--484--

"The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me."

The Magicians: A Novel by Lev Grossman

Note to the reader: This book is in no way the same as the TV show. Do not go into the book expecting it to be. Major plot points and names are borrowed from by the show, and that is all that can be said.

***.***.***

"Walking along Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, in his black overcoat and his gray interview suit, Quentin knew he wasn’t happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn’t think what else to do."

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"The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain."

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"He was absolutely prepared for this interview in every possible way. . . . but now that the ripened fruit of all that preparation was right in front of him he suddenly lost any desire for it."

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"He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore."

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"But despite his odd appearance Eliot had an air of effortless self-possession that made Quentin urgently want to be his friend, or maybe just be him period. He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world—he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly, humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air."

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"And if you tell him you saw me smoking, I will banish you to the lowest circle of hell. Which I’ve never been there, but if even half of what I hear is true it’s almost as bad as Brooklyn.”

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"He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping an uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters. It wasn’t something he’d had much practice at."

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"Out there he had been on the edge of serious depression, and worse, he had been in danger of learning to really dislike himself. He was on the verge of incurring the kind of inward damage you didn’t heal from, ever."

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"It occurred to him, long after it should have, that he wasn’t the only person here who had problems and felt like an outsider. Alice wasn’t just the competition, someone whose only purpose in life was to succeed and by doing so subtract from his happiness. She was a person with her own hopes and feelings and history and nightmares. In her own way she was as lost as he was."

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“Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives, and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing, and they’re dead before they die."

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"That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog. To tell you the truth I’m kind of glad he hit you.”

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"He wasn’t in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad, bitter things happened for no reason, and people paid for things that weren’t their fault."

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"They were in the library in the Cottage, exhausted from having done nothing all day."

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"She couldn’t help it, it was just her neurotic need to control everything coming out to play, but that didn’t make it any less of a pain in the ass for the rest of them."

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“You have been studying magic the way a parrot studies Shakespeare. You recite it like you are saying the Pledge of Allegiance. But you do not understand it.”

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"Quentin had no intention of letting that happen to him, though it occurred to him that probably nobody actually set out to have that happen to them, and, statistically speaking, it had to happen to somebody."

.
“It’s okay, Quentin. It was nice. The sex, I mean. You do realize it’s all right to have nice things sometimes, right?”

.
"She has already seen more unhappiness, Quentin thought, than I will ever see in my life."

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"This was real, human sex, and it was so much better just because they weren’t animals—because they were civilized and prudish and self-conscious humans who transformed into sweaty, lustful, naked beasts, not through magic but because that’s who on some level they really were all along."

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"God, why is everybody else in the world but us so fucking stupid?”

.
“The problem with growing up,” Quentin said, “is that once you’re grown up, people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.”

.
“Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?”

“Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.”

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"He wondered, theoretically, which of them had it worse. Alice’s parents were toxic monsters, but at least you could see it. His own parents were more like vampires or werewolves—they passed for human. He could rave about their atrocities all he wanted, he knew the villagers would never believe him till it was too late."

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"You don’t see it yet. There’s nothing out there. So you have to promise me, Quentin. Let’s never get like this, with these stupid hobbies nobody cares about. Just doing pointless things all day and hating each other and waiting to die.”

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It was like he’d been wending his way through a vast glittering city, zig-zagging through side streets and wandering through buildings and haunted de Chirico arcades and little hidden piazzas, the whole time thinking that he’d barely scratched the surface, that he was seeing just a tiny sliver of one little neighborhood. And then suddenly he turned a corner and it turned out he’d been through the whole city, it was all behind him, and all that was left was one short street leading straight out of town.

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"If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so. Words and thoughts don’t change anything. Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn’t. You deal with it, and you get on with your life."

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"I got my heart’s desire, he thought, and there my troubles began."

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“We have our whole lives ahead of us and all I want to do is take a nap,”

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"He was not yet such a lush that he’d abandoned his snobbishness."

.
"You sound just like my parents. That is just exactly what my ignorant Christian parents would say. Just, if it doesn’t fit with your theory, well, that’s just because, oh, it actually does, but God is mysterious, so we can’t see it. Because we’re so sinful. That’s so fucking easy.”

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"She always kept a cool head in difficult moments, maybe because she tended to be so out of control so much of the rest of the time."

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"The world had become smaller and somehow lighter—nothing meant anything, but what was meaning anyway but a burden that weighed them down?"

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"Daylight was here, and with it had come the world of appearances and lies and acting like everything was fine."

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"Who knows what other imaginary universes might turn out to be real? All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!"

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"This was what they’d been waiting for, too, without knowing it, he thought. The thing that was going to save them from the ennui and depression and meaningless busywork that had been stalking them ever since graduation, with its stale, alcoholic breath. It was finally here, and not a moment too soon. They couldn’t go on like this, and now they wouldn’t have to."

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"Seeing her there, so close and at the same time so infinitely removed, was like looking through a doorway into another universe, a warm, sunny, tropical dimension that he had once inhabited, but from which he was now banished."

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"He just stared at his lap and waited for each successive second to impose itself on him in turn like an uninvited guest the way the previous one had."

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"Anyway, the mood he was in, Quentin was willing to take any position on any subject with anybody if it meant he could pick a fight."

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"The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play."

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"It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though—and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger—he was angry only because his position was so weak."

.
“Glory has its price,” Penny said. “Did you not know that, before you sought it?”

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"In a way fighting like this was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse."

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"He wanted to tell Alice he didn’t love her, but he couldn’t, because it wasn’t true. It was the one lie he couldn’t quite tell."

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"If you will, for just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”

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"The terror was so absolute, so all-encompassing, that it was almost like calm: not a suspicion but the absolute certainty that they were all about to die."

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"This woman had used him, used them all like toys. And if some of the toys got broken, oh well. That had been the real point of the whole story all along."

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"Now he had answers, but they weren’t doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren’t making things simpler or easier. They weren’t helping."

.
"He could have eked out his sad wasted life with movies and books and masturbation and alcohol like everybody else. He would never have known the horror of really getting what he thought he wanted. He could have spared himself and everybody else the cost of it."

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"In different ways they had both discovered the same truth: that to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster."

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"They were like two recovering alcoholics, hopped up on caffeine and Twelve Step gospel, telling each other how glad they were to be sober and then talking about nothing but drinking."

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."

The Flash (TV)

S2E1

Iris- "Well if you keep getting no for an answer, stop asking questions."

S2E5

Dr. Wells #2- "Everyone loses someone they care about, Snow. The real test of 
character is what you do once they're gone."

S2E8

Thea- "Why don't you get a haircut and then maybe we can talk about it?"

Cisco- "I think you're just mad because my conditioner game is on point."


S2E22

Barry- "We're supposed to think we're something we're not until we become that thing. That's the path that Wally's on. I'm not gonna stop him from being the hero that he's gonna become." 

Better Off Ted (TV)

S1E5

Veronica- "It's not my fault I don't listen when you talk."

Veronica-  "How should I know what's wrong? I'm not some Greek philosopher."

S2E3

Dr. Bhamba- "It takes a village to kill a village."

S2E6

Veronica- "Together we are like Gandhi. I'm skinny and you're tan."

S2E11

Linda to Veronica- "There's no middle ground with you. Either you don't care at all or you care a hundred and crazy percent."

S2E12

Lem- "Then it's time to lower the gangplank, and welcome you aboard the Friend-ship."

Continuum (TV)

This is a fabulous economic/political satire. It's an action packed future meets cop drama with insane technology and unexpected plot twists. Do give it a try.

S2E3

Alec- "There's free will, Kiera. If you don't believe in that, then what are any of us doing?"

S2E9

Kiera- "Every monster starts off as someone's baby"

S3E2

Jason- "Don't catch a cold. That's what mothers say. Except you don't really catch a cold. 

A cold catches you. You're just standing there."

Supernatural (TV) Seasons 10+

S10E3

Castiel- "Dean, you two have been through so much. Look, you're brothers. 

It'd take a lot more than trying to kill Sam with a hammer 

to make him want to walk away."

S10E9

Castiel- "Before I was very self-assured. I was convinced I was on this righteous path. 

Now I realize that there is no righteous path, there's just people trying to do 

their best in a world where it's far too easy to do your worst."

S10E11

Charlie- "You hit like a girl who never learned how to hit."

S10E16

Ghost-Nun Isabella- "There is not much difference between madness and devotion."

S10E17

Dean- "A wise man once told me 'Family don't end in blood.' 

But it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them.

Family's there, through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back. Even when it hurts.

That's family."

S11E2

Jenna- "Don't worry. She won't care. I slit her throat."

S11E5

Len- "I remember what it was like to do the right thing. 

So I'm going through the motions. For as long as I can."

Supernatural (TV) Seasons 8-9

S8E21

Metatron- "When you create stories, you become gods of tiny, intricate 
dimensions unto themselves. So many worlds!"

S9E4

Haggerty (Man of Letters)- "There's nothing worse than adventure. Trust me."

S9E7

Dean- "Farm looks, uh, nice."
Sonny- "Oh please, man. It's barely standing. Only got a handful 
of kids working around here now."
Dean- "Why's that?"
Sonny- "Because these days the system would rather 
incarcerate a boy than redeem him."

S9E18

Metatron- "That was God's problem, you know. He published the first draft."

S9E21

Crowley's son (Gavin)- "You sold your soul? Sold it! For an extra three inches of willy?" 


Crowley's son (Gavin)-  "I-I can't be consorting with a demon"

Crowley- "Not just any demon! I'm the king! The king of hell! 
And there you were, worried the old man wouldn't amount to much."

S9E15

Dean- "I dunno man. 'cause lately with you up is down and down is.. sideways. 
You know. I, I don't know what you want."

Ed- "I don't want to be a jellyfish spine anymore, Harry."
Harry- "Jellyfish don't have spines."
Ed- "Exactly."

iZombie

S1E5

Liv- "If you live every day like it's your last, someday you'll be right."

S1E6

Major- "I'm a social worker. My insurance covers, like, one band aid a year."

S2E1

Liv- "That kid screams guilty. He's wearing make up and his pants are hanging 
so low they look like a bra for his ass."

S2E4

Liv- "Yeah. No kidding it'll make you crazy. You spend your life in a 
comfortable dream state, believing in destiny. Then reality snaps you awake 
like a kick in the teeth. Bad things happen as often as good things. 
People that think that they're meant to be together, aren't. 
Turns out we're nothing but chemicals hurtling through space, 
haphazardly bouncing off each other, feeling stupid that we 
ever thought there was some grand plan."

Supergirl (TV)

S1E5

Cat the Boss Lady- "Kara, get me a salad for lunch. I don't care what
type as long as it has a cheeseburger on top of it."

Alex- "You've spent more time in the friendzone then the phantom zone."

Kara- "This is a really good school. I'm surprised they haven't taught
you guys to speak out loud yet."

Doctor Who: Hell Bent S9E12 (TV)

I am giving this episode its own page separate from the rest of the show (which will eventually come...) because there were so many great quotes this episode. I'm just calling The Doctor by the actor's name, Capaldi, because their numbers are so tiresome and bland. Gotta say this episode was an emotional-roller coaster, but so full of good quotes

Clara (as waitress)- "You been traveling?"

Capaldi- "Yeah. From time to time."

Capaldi- "Every story ever told really happened. Stories are where
memories go when they're forgotten."

The General- "We could talk to him."

The President- "Words are his weapons."

The General- "When did they stop being ours?"

The President- "Who does he think he is?"

The General- "The man who won the Time-War sir."

Capaldi to The President- "Get off my planet."

The General- "Lord President. He's a war hero. Some of these men served with him."

The President- "These men serve me!"

The President- "You missed. All of you. Every single one of you! How is that possible?
What is it? Is the firing squad afraid of the unarmed man?!"

Soldier Gastron- "There was a saying, sir, in the Time-War. The first thing you notice
about the Doctor of War is he's unarmed. For many, it's also the last"

Clara- "Ooh. Ooh, That's weird. What's wrong with my ears?"

Capaldi- "Nothing."

Clara- "Ooh. It's weird everything sounds wrong."

Capaldi- "It's a side effect."

Clara- "I can hear you. I can hear you fine. It's like, but I don't know,
it's like, umm...something is missing?"

The General- "Doctor, we have to tell her. We always tell them."

Clara- "Tell me what? What's he talking about? Doctor..."

-silence-

Clara- "Doctor, what's going on?"

Capaldi- "Clara there's a sound you've been living with every day of
your life that you've learned not to hear."

Clara- "What sound? What's wrong? Just tell me! Doctor! What sound?"

Capaldi- "Your heartbeat." (pause for emphasis) "Your physical processes have been
time locked, frozen, between one heartbeat and the next. Even your breathing
is just a habit. You don't need it."

Clara- "You killed that man! You shot him! He's dead!"

Capaldi- "It was him or you."

Clara- "I don't care! "

Capaldi- "Yeah? Well, the difference is, when you die, you stay dead. 

Clara- "So does he!"

Capaldi- "We're on Gallifrey. Death is Time Lord for man flu!

Ohila- "Hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold."

The General- "Where can he run? 

Ohila- "Where he always runs. Away. Just away."

Capaldi- "At the end of everything we should expect the company of immortals,
or so I've been told."

Clara- "Tomorrow is promised to no one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past.
I am entitled to that. It's mine."