I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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?
I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.
I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.
This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.
If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
Some things are hard to let go of.
She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
It is impossible to erase my choices.
What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too.
Change, like healing, takes time.
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.
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.
The person you became with her is worth being.
She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
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
I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent
So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
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.
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
Tris," said tobias. "I love you
Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias
I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.
Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton