{"quotes":[{"text":"If only you could be yourself.' they shouted. So, she did. 'You are not like me or anyone I have met!' they screamed. So, she blended. 'You are so fake.' they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beauty","compassion","different","divergent","god-s-love","goodness","inner-light","kindness","love","loving-yourself","outer-and-inner-beauty","quality","self-confidence","self-respect","unique","wisdom"],"id":918,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I have something I need to tell you,' he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hands and look back at him. 'I might be in love with you.' He smiles a little. 'I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.'That's sensible of you,' I say, smiling too. 'We should find some paper so you can make a list or a chart or something.'I feel his laughter against my side, his nose sliding along my jaw, his lips pressing my ear.'Maybe I'm already sure,' he says, 'and I just don't want to frighten you.'I laugh a little. 'Then you should know better.'Fine,' he says. 'Then I love you.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["beatrice","divergent","humor","love","tobias"],"id":3722,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Sensitive people care when the world doesn't because we understand waiting to be rescued and no one shows up. We have rescued ourselves, so many times that we have become self taught in the art of compassion for those forgotten.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activists","against-bias","artists","compassion","counselors","creatives","divergent","diversity","dreamers","empaths","equality","feeling-deeply","infj","life-coach","musicians","nurturers","rescuers","sar","survivors","therapists","warriors","wounded","writers"],"id":7787,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.''P244.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["carve-the-mark","decisions","desperate","desperation","divergent","stupid","veronica-roth"],"id":36408,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something.'Okay.' He laughs shakily in my ear. 'Why is your heart racing Tris?'I cringe and say, 'Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?'...'Maybe you were cut out for Candor,' he says, 'because you're a terrible liar.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["beatrice-prior","cute","divergent","four","love","tris-prior","veronica-roth"],"id":39853,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"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 there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["bravery","divergent","strength"],"id":44150,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I don't know. I don't know.Please.-Tris, DivergentCan I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.-Tris, Allegiant.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["allegiant","development","divergent"],"id":47851,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"I don’t know how long I tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-It’s getting more difficult to be wise. – He says,laughing into my ear.I smile at him. – I think that’s how it’s supposed to be.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["allegiant","cute","divergent","love","tobias","tris","veronica-roth"],"id":52595,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"Yeah, well,' I say, 'I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be.'That's not entirely true.' He smiles at me. 'That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?'...'You've been paying close attention, haven't you?'I like to observe people/'Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["cute","divergent","four","love","tobias","tris-prior","veronica-roth"],"id":53246,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"},{"text":"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 wont pose a threat to them.","author":"Veronica Roth","tags":["be-yourself","dauntless","divergent","four","intentions","life","society","tobias-eaton","tris-prior","veronica-roth"],"id":57768,"author_id":"Veronica+Roth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}