Top 63 Four Tobias Quotes
#1. I can be a new person,someone who doesn't put up with cutting comments from Erudite know-it-alls.Someone who can cut back.Someone who's finally ready to fight.
Four.
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#2. At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
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#3. You were afraid of shooting people?"
"No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill."
How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
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#4. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
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#5. If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction.
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#6. Stiff. That's why you're strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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#7. My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.
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#8. It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? ( ... ) But please, when you see an opportunity ... ruin them
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#9. Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training."
Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
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#10. You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.
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#11. We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
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#12. In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
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#13. But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.
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#14. Can you tell me where to find Tobias'? I ask. When I imagine his face, affection for him bubbles up inside of me and all I want to do is kiss him. 'Four, I mean. He's so handsome, isn't he? I don't really understand why he likes me so much. I'm not very nice, am I?'
-Tris
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#15. I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
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#16. You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
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#17. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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#18. I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
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#19. You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?'
'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.'
He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.
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#20. How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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#21. I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.
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#23. Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.
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#25. And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says.
"Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.
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#26. You're not very nice," I say, grinning.
"You're one to talk."
"Hey, I could be nice if I tried."
"Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then."
"You're very good-looking."
He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. "I like this 'nice' thing.
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#27. All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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#28. I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.
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#29. You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
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#30. I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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#31. The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don't believe in - gray.
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#32. I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
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#33. Tobias Eaton was a shameful name, and now it is a powerful one.
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#34. You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don't care."
I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his.
It is the best moment of my life.
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#35. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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#36. One Choice, Breaks free of his past
One Choice, Embraces his future
One Choice, Exposes the dangers
One Choice, Changes him- forever
One Choice will free him
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#38. If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
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#39. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.
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#40. Is he ... " I look from Marcus, who walks slowly toward us, to Four, who inches slowly back, and everything comes together. Marcus had a son who joined Dauntless. His name was ... "Tobias.
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#41. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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#42. Tris," he says. "What did they do to you? You're acting like a lunatic."
"That's not very nice of you to say," I say. "They put me in a good mood, that's all. And now I really want to kiss you, so if you could just relax-
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#43. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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#44. I've made my peace with Caleb, but I still can't be around him for long. His gestures, his inflection, his manner, they are hers. They make him into just a whisper of her, and that is not enough of her, but it is also far too much.
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#45. I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.
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#46. Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
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#47. The person you became with her is worth being.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Aren't you going to ask me if I'm all right?" I say.
"No, I'm pretty sure you're not all right."
He shakes his head. "I'm going to ask you not to make any decisions until we've talked
about it.
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#51. Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.
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#52. All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
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#53. I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last transfer we had from Abnegation, who is sitting right next to him, managed to knock out some of his teeth, so who knows what this next one will do.
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#54. Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice.
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#55. People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
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#56. The night air slips into my lungs, and I feel like it is one of my first breaths.
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#57. Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.
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#58. I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago.
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#59. I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
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#60. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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#62. What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
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#63. I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken
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