— Paris for me... was more than living on the streets... and trying to put it on the paper, do you know what I mean?
— My dream has always been to just run away and become an artist... living in a garret, poor but free.
— You wouldn't last two days. There's no hot water and hardly ever any caviar.
— I happen to hate caviar. And I hate people telling me what dreams I should and shouldn't have. I'm sorry. You're right. Well, all right. Everybody expects me to be this delicate little flower, which I'm not. I'm sturdy. I'm strong as a horse. I'm here to do something, not just sit around and be decorative.
Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just shoot us?
Your freedom to choose is more important than anything.
Today I take the test. I'm scared it'll tell me I'm not Abnegation. That i have to leave my family. But I'm even more scared that it will tell me to stay.
— What was my result?
— Abnegation. And Erudiete. And Dauntless. Your results were inconclusive.
— That's impossible. It doesn't make any sense.
— No. Not impossible. It's just extremely rare. They call it "Divergent".
— So what am I supposed to do at the choosing ceremony? I was supposed to learn what to do. This was supposed to tell me what faction to choose, the test. We're supposed to trust the test!
— The test didn't work on you. You have to trust yourself.
99 percent of subjects accepted the program, as long as theq were given a choice even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level.
You know, a puppet is free as long as he loves his strings. You're not controlling the storm. You're not lost in it, either. You are the storm. Question, what's it all for?
We are free when we can choose our own path.
We are free when we understand ourselves, we understand ourselves.
— Look, we... we don't need politicians, we've all got iPhones and computers, right? So any decision that has to be made, any policy, we just put it online. Let the people vote thumbs up, thumbs down, the majority wins. That's a democracy. That's a... that's an actual democracy.
— So's YouTube, and I don't know if you've seen it, but the most popular video is a dog farting the theme tune to Happy Days.