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

Tris Quotes #19780
#2. You have a nice voice,' I say.
'Tris,' he says, 'please be quiet.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #66578
#3. 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

Tris Quotes #68333
#4. 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

Tris Quotes #72827
#5. 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

Tris Quotes #74292
#6. 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

Tris Quotes #78517
#7. 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

Tris Quotes #89902
#8. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #91227
#9. 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

Tris Quotes #121026
#10. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #129468
#11. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #135983
#12. Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #148058
#13. Why is your heart racing Tris?

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #172917
#14. 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

Tris Quotes #175357
#15. 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

Tris Quotes #177923
#16. Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?"
Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want.

Tamora Pierce

Tris Quotes #181628
#17. 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

Tris Quotes #181750
#18. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #205737
#19. 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

Tris Quotes #208567
#20. You know, most boys enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #213998
#21. Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #214465
#22. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #244947
#23. I'm going to stop a revolution,' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #263818
#24. 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

Tris Quotes #283410
#25. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.

Tris Prior

Tris Quotes #295189
#26. 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

Tris Quotes #297209
#27. I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #308308
#28. He pus his lips next to my ear and says, You look good, Tris.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #319299
#29. It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.

Tris Speaker

Tris Quotes #329723
#30. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #343384
#31. Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #349582
#32. 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

Tris Quotes #366998
#33. 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

Tris Quotes #375783
#34. 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

Tris Quotes #379325
#35. If I fall now, I will die. But I don't think I will fall.

Tris Prior

Tris Quotes #381738
#36. 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

Tris Quotes #393640
#37. Faction before blood, yeah?

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #398035
#38. 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

Tris Quotes #424396
#39. With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication?

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #425304
#40. Death could not erase her, she is permanent.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #430605
#41. 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

Tris Quotes #441953
#42. 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

Tris Quotes #451425
#43. 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

Tris Quotes #455142
#44. 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

Tris Quotes #469043
#45. 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

Tris Quotes #501297
#46. 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

Tris Quotes #504126
#47. 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

Tris Quotes #515219
#48. 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

Tris Quotes #556888
#49. 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

Tris Quotes #562689
#50. 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

Tris Quotes #569438
#51. They're damaged, after all.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #576923
#52. 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

Tris Quotes #609060
#53. 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

Tris Quotes #610575
#54. 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

Tris Quotes #617107
#55. 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

Tris Quotes #627242
#56. 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

Tris Quotes #630113
#57. If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #635917
#58. 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

Tris Quotes #639396
#59. 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

Tris Quotes #656710
#60. Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #662967
#61. Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

Tris Speaker

Tris Quotes #666239
#62. Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #681886
#63. He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #700217
#64. 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

Tris Quotes #720990
#65. The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #729930
#66. He's one of the last friends I have," she says, her voice breaking. "I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #742412
#67. I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #744842
#68. Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don't really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #752685
#69. No wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #755611
#70. A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #767247
#71. 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

Tris Quotes #769140
#72. Maybe we're strangers no matter where we go. Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #769686
#73. For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #771885
#74. Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of their long faces.
You look like a collection of grandfathers, she thought, amused.

Tamora Pierce

Tris Quotes #785160
#75. Dear Augustus:
I will take care of Hazel if your you take care to Tris.
- Love always Tobias.

John Green

Tris Quotes #785482
#76. My Tris should look pale and small
she is pale and small, after all
but instead the room is full of her.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #790294
#77. 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

Tris Quotes #803512
#78. 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

Tris Quotes #823506
#79. If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Tris Speaker

Tris Quotes #826061
#80. Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #834408
#81. But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #853809
#82. I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together.
"That's why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #862125
#83. The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one.

Tris Speaker

Tris Quotes #874164
#84. I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #874203
#85. One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #879491
#86. Then his father did something horrible. He smiled. Tris had never seen Papa smile. It terrified him, and he screamed and screamed.

Rowan Speedwell

Tris Quotes #882352
#87. Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #882405
#88. And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #889180
#89. I'll be your family now." ~ Tobis 'Four

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #892388
#90. What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #894915
#91. 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

Tris Quotes #897462
#92. We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #915855
#93. 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

Tris Quotes #918570
#94. Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard.

Tris Speaker

Tris Quotes #932289
#95. Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #961787
#96. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #983765
#97. 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

Tris Quotes #985541
#98. I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #1008549
#99. I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories-lives-for control of the experiments. That he would trade them without even thinking of alternatives-without feeling that he needed to bother to save them.
They're damaged, after all.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #1018050
#100. Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.

Veronica Roth

Tris Quotes #1048335

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