Top 38 Quotes About Divergent Tobias
#1. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
Veronica Roth
#2. Morning," I say.
"Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his neck to the small of his back and put it under his shirt. He kisses me harder.
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#6. Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents' paths, your parents' rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
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#7. 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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#8. I'd rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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#9. 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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#10. I would like to experience this 'date' phenomenon.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent
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#14. 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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#16. Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed.
Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.
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#17. 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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#18. You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.
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#25. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#29. He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. His
breaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. He
smells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.
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#30. There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
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#31. Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
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#32. Don't worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I've had a lot of practice.
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#33. In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.
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#35. I'm not anyone," he says. "I'm nobody. That's what being factionless is.
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#36. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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#37. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
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#38. My name is Four," I say. "Call me 'Stiff' again and you and I will have a problem.
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