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Some of them seemed to attract people with wildly divergent costumes, some others were imparting quick movements to their consumers
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Any divergent actions can have a serious consequence
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‘Well, it is forbidden for us to create or allow the creation of a divergent time-line as a result of passing on technical or scientific information
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Once, he had caused a man's (artificially represented) friends to turn against him: to reject his opinions, to eventually ostracise and abandon this person; a gradual process constructed to seem authentic whereby his strongly established notion of normality became divergent from his peers
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There were many other divergent practices and schools of thought
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The Renaissance was a time when the true answers of the Church began to be tested by the divergent ones of the “men of discovery
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Maybe if I could have told them I was Divergent, and I was confused about what to choose, they would have understood
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Maybe they would have helped me figure out what Divergent is, and what it means, and why it’s dangerous
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I dreamt that Peter tied me to a chair and asked me if I was Divergent
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She asked me to tell Caleb to research the simulation serum—why? Does it have something to do with me being Divergent, with me being in danger, or is it something else? I sigh
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I lean back, pressing my shoulders to the wall, and say, “What’s Divergent?”
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You manipulated the simulation; you’re Divergent
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Is he Divergent? Was a family member? A friend? A girlfriend?
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Is it being Divergent that makes me steady, or is it something else?
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I have to know if he’s Divergent
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But—I had assumed that if he was not Divergent, he must have gotten a Dauntless result
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Divergent or not, this faction is where I belong
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“Why bother?” She and the Dauntless leaders had no problem killing the Divergent in the past
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“Why are most of the Divergent weak-willed, God-fearing nobodies from Abnegation, of all factions?”
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He is Divergent
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But they explained to us that they suspected we might have the highest Divergent population of any group in the city
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“I want to know why you care how many Divergent there are
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“Fair enough,” he says, “but why were the Abnegation so concerned with finding the Divergent? It wasn’t to help Jeanine, was it?”
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“That he suspected you were Divergent,” she says
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“I mean that I was discovered and brought to Jeanine, and she injected a version of the simulation serum that specifically targeted the Divergent
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There are bound to be more of the Divergent in this building, but will they know what they are? Will they know to hide? And what do I expect to gain from submerging myself in an army of Dauntless traitors?
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One of the elevator doors opens, and a Dauntless soldier shoves Uriah—whose lips are stained with blood—toward the short row of the Divergent
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Now they’ll find all the Divergent in the building, and most of us will die
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The elevator doors open again, bringing more of the Divergent with more Dauntless traitors
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It’s easier to think of biology than the line of the Divergent sitting between the elevators
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They thought everyone but the Divergent was unconscious, so they ran
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“The only use I see for it is that it helped them figure out who’s Divergent and who’s not
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“I heard they got a bunch of the Divergent and started shooting them
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That is, everyone but Uriah and me and the other Divergent
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“Did you know that Uriah was Divergent?”
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Of course he couldn’t tell me Uriah was Divergent
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She put everyone to sleep to find out who the Divergent were
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“What seems to me to require more investigation,” Jack says, “is the Divergent
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“If you are one of the Divergent, please step forward so that we can hear from you
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You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago, and now all that you know is that they are immune to something to which you are susceptible, and that is a frightening thing
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“It seems clear to me,” says Jack, “that we were attacked so that the Erudite could find the Divergent
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My mother said people feared the Divergent because we couldn’t be controlled
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“Told you the Divergent were crazy,” one of the other armed Dauntless mutters to the woman next to him
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What I don’t say, because I’m sure she wouldn’t want everyone to know, is that Tori probably seemed explosive in Erudite headquarters because they murdered her brother for being Divergent
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And that he will do anything to protect his faction, even if it means sacrificing the Divergent
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Second, that you allow your compound to be searched by our soldiers so that we can extract the Divergent; and third, that you provide us with the names of those who were not injected with the simulation serum
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“The purpose of our search would be to locate and remove any of the Divergent from the premises
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“I guess I can trust you, Divergent
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“One of them said something about the Divergent,” she says
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“I have a message for the Divergent
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“Even among the Divergent, you are somewhat of an oddity, because you have aptitude for three factions
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Tobias, blood trailing down the side of his face and marking his white shirt with red; Tobias, fellow Divergent, standing in the mouth of this furnace in which I will burn
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But as you and I know, a lot of the factionless are Divergent, and many of them were already moving toward the Abnegation sector when I left, so only some of the safe houses will be affected
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On the Divergent
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“I know it has something to do with the Divergent,” I blurt out
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Lynn rolls her eyes, and he hurries on, probably to avoid hearing Lynn’s Divergent conspiracy theory again
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She left Dauntless not because she was ill-suited for it but because it was safer to be Divergent in Abnegation
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My ancestor, and this is the inheritance she passed to me: freedom from the factions, and the knowledge that my Divergent identity is more important than I could have known
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In my experience, most Divergent can’t resist the truth serum
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She promised me she wouldn’t go to her death in the Erudite compound when Jeanine demanded the sacrifice of a Divergent, and then she did it anyway
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“The original purpose—you mean, what was in the Edith Prior video? That we should send people outside when the city has a large Divergent population?”
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“So what you’re saying is that if we’re not Divergent, we’re damaged,” Caleb says
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“They faked my death because I was Divergent, and Jeanine had started killing the Divergent
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“The Erudite representative had just begun to kill the Divergent, of course,” he says
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“But the Divergent were still being killed when I was an initiate
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“You, for example, have displayed extraordinary serum resistance—most of the Divergent aren’t as capable of resisting serums as you are,” Matthew says
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“And Tobias can resist simulations, but he doesn’t display some of the characteristics we’ve come to expect of the Divergent
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There’s a chance I’m not actually Divergent?
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“It means,” Matthew says, “that you are not Divergent
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You have, in other words, the appearance of a Divergent without actually being one
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David said the Divergent are dying and someone has to stop it, because that’s a waste of our best genetic material
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I think that’s a pretty sick way to put it, but David doesn’t mean it that way—he just means that if it wasn’t the Divergent dying, we wouldn’t intervene until a certain level of destruction, but since it’s them it has to be taken care of now
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“She came from the fringe, and they brought her here, and she lived here for a couple years, then went into the city to stop the Erudite from killing the Divergent
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She delivered a skillful manipulation in that video, which was intended to keep us contained and dedicated to the vision of the Bureau—the world outside the city is badly broken, and the Divergent need to come out here and heal it
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But they didn’t need the Divergent to march out of our city like an army to fight injustice and save everyone, as Edith suggested
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The highest proportion of Divergent was among the factionless, not Abnegation
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We follow him into the room where I found out I was not Divergent
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In the spring of 2012, fifty blogs helped spread their love for the DIVERGENT series by supporting the release of INSURGENT in a faction-based online campaign
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QUOTATIONS THAT INSPIRED DIVERGENT
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Where did the idea of DIVERGENT come from?
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At the time that I came up with the idea for DIVERGENT (about five years ago), I was studying exposure therapy in the treatment of phobias
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Something that DIVERGENT grapples with
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At the beginning of the book, Tris does not understand what it means to be Divergent
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But seriously: DIVERGENT was my utopian world
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And the characters in DIVERGENT struggle with that distinction
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THE TRANSFER: A DIVERGENT STORY
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THE INITIATE: A DIVERGENT STORY
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THE SON: A DIVERGENT STORY
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THE TRAITOR: A DIVERGENT STORY
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“When that fails, as it will,” Myserrah continued, sneering testily, then suddenly following a divergent line, “Did you notice our God Sophet holds theirs at such a distance that he cannot come to them?” He drummed on the head of the next that had given voice to dissent
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The best illustration of these divergent sources may be found in the biblical book of The Exodus
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divergent line, “Did you notice our God Sophet holds theirs at such a distance that he cannot
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The best illustration of these divergent sources may be found in the biblical book of The
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which, to me, only served to illustrate how divergent their
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The former alludes to right brain convergent awareness (which merges into a non-local universal mind) and the latter to left brain divergent awareness (as described in Chapter 1)
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5 As noted earlier (see Chapter 1), whereas the left brain’s attention is divergent, the right brain is convergent
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Brad and I have divergent visions on
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the sets of concepts in the Divergent Strategies list, is that they frame your definition of
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The British Government had picked people with very divergent interests from the religious extremists and other minority groups who could never agree