Top 100 Tris's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Dear Augustus:
I will take care of Hazel if your you take care to Tris.
- Love always Tobias.
John Green
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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.
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#7. A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
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#8. No wonder you left."
Yeah," i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
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#11. 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.
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#12. The steps were crowded with bodies then. Now they are clean and cool, like nothing ever happened here.
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#13. 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
#14. 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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#15. 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.
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#17. Caleb," I say, "I love you."
His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.
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#18. 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
#19. 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 ...
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#20. If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
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#21. 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.
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#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.
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#23. 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
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#24. 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
#25. 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
#27. I know some things
I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something
more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
Veronica Roth
#28. What's your name?
Um ...
Think about it. You don't get to pick again.
Tris.
Veronica Roth
#29. Dauntless is the cruelest of the five
They tear each other to pieces ...
Erudite is the coldest of the five
Knowledge is a costly thing ...
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#30. So small as to be negligible.
It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost ... free.
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#31. It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb.
Of course she would.
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#32. I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn't some sinister force dragging me toward death.
This time I know it's my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms.
And I go gladly into her embrace.
Veronica Roth
#33. What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.'
And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
Veronica Roth
#34. 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
#35. Looks like someone had a mood swing." She rolls her eyes. "Like you don't want to
know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he's probably afraid of marshmallows
and really bright sunrises or something.
Veronica Roth
#36. 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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#37. Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. - Tris.
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#38. It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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#39. They'll care for each other, she says. That's what people do. I smile and close my eyes.
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#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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.
Veronica Roth
#43. Stiff. That's why you're strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. 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.
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#49. 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.
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#50. Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.
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#51. My Tris should look pale and small
she is pale and small, after all
but instead the room is full of her.
Veronica Roth
#52. Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?
I want to be.
I can.
I believe it.
Veronica Roth
#53. 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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#54. I'm going to stop a revolution,' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.
Veronica Roth
#55. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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#56. Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
Veronica Roth
#57. You know, most boys enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.
Veronica Roth
#58. 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
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#59. I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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#60. 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
#61. Tris: "What if I don't want to cut up aloe leaves?"
Rosethorn: "Ask me if I care what you want.
Tamora Pierce
#62. 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
#63. 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
#65. And I am someone who does not let inconsequential boys and near-death experiences stop her.
Tris Prior
#66. He looks at me like I am the only thing in the room worth looking at. -Tris (Divergent)
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#67. I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave.
I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
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#68. 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.
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#69. We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear.
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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
#73. 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.
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#74. 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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#75. You have a nice voice,' I say.
'Tris,' he says, 'please be quiet.
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#76. You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
Veronica Roth
#78. 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?
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#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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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#82. 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
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. 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 ...
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#87. With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication?
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. 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
#91. If I fall now, I will die. But I don't think I will fall.
Tris Prior
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Pretty sure we can't call you 'Stiff' anymore, Tris.
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#96. Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'
A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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#97. It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
Tris Speaker
#98. He pus his lips next to my ear and says, You look good, Tris.
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#99. I love you" I say.
"I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.
Veronica Roth
#100. 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.
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