Tris Prior

"I have to be brave."

"I have a choice. I can let my fear own me, or I can own my fear."

"I am brave."

"I don't want to be just one thing."

"I realize that I am trembling, at the same moment I realize why I'm trembling."

"I could hurt people—I could. I shouldn't be trusted."

"I am my father's daughter, but I am also my own."

"Maybe there's truth and love in small things, too. In a scarf. In a bowl of broth."

"I wanted to tell him that I loved him the way that I had loved the fear in my nightmares."

"I want to be brave, and selfless, and intelligent, and kind and honest."

"I am done being willing to die for them."

"Some people will use whatever power they have to destroy rather than protect."

"I trust him, but I do not know him."

"My mother always said that if you want to see the real you, you have to look past the fear."

"In the shadow of the buildings, I feel small, but not small in the way I do when I'm outside the walls."

"I suppose you could say that I have always been a little different."

"He must have thought I was very strange."

"I choose to believe it."

"I do not tell him that the reason I was afraid is that I was so close to him."

"I want to know what he is thinking, but I don't think he will tell me."

"The world is changing so rapidly that the fear I knew before is completely different now."

"I have never been good at being told what to do."

"I realize that protecting something is different than running away."

"I want to be brave, but I don't know how."

"I am more than just the choices that define me."

"I have realized that part of my life will always be unfinished. I will always be searching for something."

"I am brave."

"The world is broken because you people broke it."

"I don't want to be just one thing. I can't be."

"My name is Beatrice Prior. I am Divergent."