Top 100 Tris Quotes
#1. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#2. You have a nice voice,' I say.
'Tris,' he says, 'please be quiet.
Veronica Roth
#3. We are creatures of loss; we have left everything behind. I have no home, no path, and no certainty. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose now, I must become more than either.
Veronica Roth
#4. I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina.
"Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.
Veronica Roth
#5. We have to go," Tris says, and I know she's not talking about leaving Michigan Avenue or taking Edward to the hospital; she's talking about the city. "We have to go," I repeat.
Veronica Roth
#6. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
Veronica Roth
#7. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
Veronica Roth
#9. Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle.
(Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)
Tamora Pierce
#10. So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA
'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS
Veronica Roth
#11. Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?"
Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want.
Tamora Pierce
#12. 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-
Veronica Roth
#13. He pus his lips next to my ear and says, You look good, Tris.
Veronica Roth
#14. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
Veronica Roth
#15. Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris.
Veronica Roth
#16. You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?"
"I changed my mind," I say.
Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.
Veronica Roth
#17. We can't just act without thinking anymore, Tris. They've been trying to teach as that all along. I guess if we're mages, we can't exactly be kids, can we?
- Sandry after the pirate attack
Tamora Pierce
#18. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men. "Tris.
Veronica Roth
#19. I throw my arms out to the side and imagine that I am flying ... my heart beats fast, I can't scream and I can't breathe. I also feel everything, buzzing as if I am charged with electricity. I AM PURE ADRENALINE - TRIS
Veronica Roth
#20. My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy "faction before blood." Blood before faction
no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior
Veronica Roth
#21. I guess I grew suspicious of both. Power and knowledge," I say. "To the Abnegation, power should only be given to people who don't want it." - Tris
Veronica Roth
#22. I find my anger ebbing away, and I'm lost in muffled grief again, this time not just for Tris, but for Uriah, whose smile is burned into my memory. My friend's brother, and then my friend, too, though not for long enough to let his humor work its way into me, not for long enough.
Veronica Roth
#23. Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow.
There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice."
He laughs weakly.
"Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt.
Veronica Roth
#24. I was never a watering pot before I met Charles," he [Tris] sobbed. "It's all his fault."
"You never cared before you met Charles," Derek said quietly "You never loved before you met Charles.
Rowan Speedwell
#25. Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, "Hey Tris!" and Uriah cries, "Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?"
"My exceptional strength," she says.
Veronica Roth
#26. Dear Augustus:
I will take care of Hazel if your you take care to Tris.
- Love always Tobias.
John Green
#27. My Tris should look pale and small
she is pale and small, after all
but instead the room is full of her.
Veronica Roth
#28. I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.
And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
Veronica Roth
#29. Is this scaring you, Tris?"
"No," I croak. I clear my throat. "Not really. I'm only ... afraid of what I want."
"What do you want?" Then his face tightens. "Me?" Slowly I nod. He nods too, and takes my hands in his gently.
Veronica Roth
#30. Then his father did something horrible. He smiled. Tris had never seen Papa smile. It terrified him, and he screamed and screamed.
Rowan Speedwell
#31. My parents ... They died today ... They died for me. -Tris
They loved you ... To them there was no better way to show you. -Four
Veronica Roth
#32. It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
Veronica Roth
#33. Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS
'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS
Veronica Roth
#34. Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is?
Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called ... Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#35. I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.
Rachel Cohn
#36. Tris: "I was reading."
Sandry: "You're always reading. The only way people can ever talk to you is to interrupt."
Tris: "Then maybe they shouldn't talk to me.
Tamora Pierce
#37. I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype. But the Tris who's trying as hard as she can to destroy herself ... I can't love her.
Anonymous
#38. My mouth goes dry. No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.'
Tris p. 110
Veronica Roth
#39. Be brave, Tris," he whispers. "The first time is always the hardest." His eyes are the last thing I see.
Veronica Roth
#40. Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.
Veronica Roth
#41. Tris: Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war ... and took your makeup bag with you?
Christina: Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.
Veronica Roth
#42. The serum will go into effect in one minute,' he says. 'Be brace, Tris.
Veronica Roth
#43. Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. - Tris.
Veronica Roth
#44. 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
Veronica Roth
#45. What's your name."
"Um ... " I don't know why I hesitate, but Betrise just doesn't sound right anymore. I have a chance to be remade here. A new fraction, a new name.
"Tris," I say firmly.
"Welcome to dauntless," he says to me.
Veronica Roth
#47. Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
Veronica Roth
#48. Peter leans forward and looks into my eyes. "The serum will go into effect in one minute," he says. "Be brave, Tris." My heart begins to race. Why would Peter tell me to be brave? Why would he offer any kind words at all?
Veronica Roth
#49. 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.
Veronica Roth
#50. Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#51. Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.
Veronica Roth
#52. Tris." I keep staring. "Tris." I finally look at him. "I just don't want to lose you.
Veronica Roth
#53. He could be the Darcy to your Elizabeth, the Harry to your Ginny, the Peeta to your Katniss, the Four to your Tris,
Anonymous
#54. And, I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#55. I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris
Veronica Roth
#56. It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb.
Of course she would.
Veronica Roth
#58. She smiles, but her eyes are glassy, like a dormant part of her is fighting its way out and spilling over. The train hisses over the rails, a tear drops down Tris's cheek, and the city disappears into the darkness.
Veronica Roth
#59. You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes.
"Not claustrophobic people, Tris.
Veronica Roth
#60. That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.
Veronica Roth
#62. Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?"
Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do.
Tamora Pierce
#63. What's your name?
Um ...
Think about it. You don't get to pick again.
Tris.
Veronica Roth
#64. 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.
Veronica Roth
#65. 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.
Veronica Roth
#66. 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.
Veronica Roth
#67. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
Veronica Roth
#68. Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
Veronica Roth
#69. 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
Veronica Roth
#70. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
Veronica Roth
#71. I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
Veronica Roth
#72. You know, most boys enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.
Veronica Roth
#73. Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
Veronica Roth
#74. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
Veronica Roth
#75. I'm going to stop a revolution,' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.
Veronica Roth
#76. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.
Tris Prior
#77. A weight settles on my shoulders. I knew, of course, that Uriah might never wake up. But the hope that kept the grief at bay is dwindling, slipping away with each word she speaks.
Veronica Roth
#78. I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
Veronica Roth
#79. It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Tris Speaker
#80. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me
they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
Veronica Roth
#81. If I fall now, I will die. But I don't think I will fall.
Tris Prior
#82. 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.
Veronica Roth
#84. 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.
Veronica Roth
#85. With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication?
Veronica Roth
#87. It's over, I say, wincing- she punches harder than she realizes. I ignore the pain and run a hand over her hair, because I'm stupid, and inappropriate, and stupid ...
Veronica Roth
#88. She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love ... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
Veronica Roth
#89. I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
Veronica Roth
#90. Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
Veronica Roth
#91. 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.
Veronica Roth
#92. Oh, so it's not enough that I told you; it has to be in the right setting?" I raise my eyebrows. "Next time should I brew some tea and make sure the lighting is right too?
Veronica Roth
#93. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
Veronica Roth
#95. I grin at the fierce burn in my legs, in my chest.Using pain to relieve pain. It doesn't make much sense.
Veronica Roth
#96. It's what you deserve to hear," I say firmly, my eyes going cloudy with tears. "That you're whole, that you're worth loving, that you're the best person I've ever known.
Veronica Roth
#97. Any idiot can stand in front of a target. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying him. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
Veronica Roth
#98. If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
Veronica Roth
#99. It's not about Al," I snap. "It's about everyone watching! Everyone who now sees
hurling themselves into the chasm as a viable option. I mean, why not do it if everyone
calls you a hero afterward? Why not do it if everyone will remember your name? It's ... I
can't ...
Veronica Roth
#100. Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
Veronica Roth
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