Top 52 Tris Tobias Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. 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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#3. I regret ... " Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice."
"What Choice?"
"Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and ... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."
Her.
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#4. Stiff. That's why you're strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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#5. It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
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#6. Morning," I say.
"Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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#7. 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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#8. She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.
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#9. 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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#10. 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. She sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.'
'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning.
'Fair enough.
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#13. 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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#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'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
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#17. I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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#18. Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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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. If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#26. I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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#27. 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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#28. 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.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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.
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#34. 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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#35. Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
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#36. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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#37. 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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#38. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
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#42. 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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#43. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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#44. 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.
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#45. If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
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#46. 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.
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#47. I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
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#48. Dear Augustus:
I will take care of Hazel if your you take care to Tris.
- Love always Tobias.
John Green
#49. 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
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#50. Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.
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#52. What did you do?" I scream.
"You die, I die too.
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