Tobias Quotes

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

~ Veronica Roth

The person you became with her is worth being.

~ Veronica Roth

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.

~ Veronica Roth

What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.

~ Veronica Roth

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

People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.

~ Veronica Roth

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

~ Veronica Roth

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

~ Veronica Roth

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

~ Veronica Roth

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

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes, and I try to let her words work themselves into me.

~ Veronica Roth

When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first.Even I didn't jump first.Her eyes were so stern, so insistent.Beautiful.

~ Veronica Roth

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

~ Veronica Roth

Why is your heart racing Tris?

~ Veronica Roth

It is impossible to erase my choices.

~ Veronica Roth

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 talkedabout it.

~ Veronica Roth

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

~ Veronica Roth

It’s getting more difficult to be wise,” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

~ Veronica Roth

Elfangor laughed in my mind. You don't have to give up your principles to win. Isn't there always an alternative to sacrifice if you just keep your mind clear, and step back, and see it, and...

~ K. A. Applegate

Elfangor laughed in my mind. Victory without sacrifice? You know better than that.You don't have to give up your principles to win. Isn't there always an alternative to sacrifice if you just keep your mind clear, and step back, and see it, and...You know better than that.

~ K. A. Applegate

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

~ Veronica Roth

I'll only go if there's cake.~Tobias Four

~ Veronica Roth

... how often is it possible to see the big picture, really? Rachel said. Things happen fast. You just have to make the best decision you can and then go for it.... With me, it's about instinct. I knew we had to dig that tunnel. Turns out, I was right, but for the wrong reasons.

~ K. A. Applegate

I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent

~ Veronica Roth

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

~ Veronica Roth

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

~ Veronica Roth

I don’t know how long i tis before we get cold again, and huddle under the blanket together.-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

He wraps his arms around me and holds me tight for a few seconds. Hisbreaths tickle my ear, and I close my eyes, letting myself finally relax. Hesmells like wind and sweat and soap, like Tobias and like safety.

~ Veronica Roth