Tobias Quotes

“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, Insurgent

“I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“But there is something appealing about it here too, a freedom, a refusal to belong to theses arbitrary categories we've made for ourselves.”
― Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Did you just make a joke, Tris? We should have you on painkillers more often if your going to start cracking jokes.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.”
― Veronica Roth, The Traitor

“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.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Christina and I don't speak, but I know our thoughts are the same, fixed on Uriah, on his last breaths.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“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, Allegiant

“You could just do the work, you know,' I say. 'You could make better decisions, make a better life.'
'Yeah, I could,' he says. 'But I won't. We both know that.'
I do know that. I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten. He is afraid that he will not be able to put in that work, that he will squander those days, and that they will leave him worse off than he is now. And I understand that feeling - I understand being afraid of yourself.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I don't know how long it takes for me to realize it isn't going to happen, that she is gone. But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and i fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to and everything inside me screams for one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I'll only go if there's cake.

~Tobias "Four”
― Veronica Roth

“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are wrong. My first instinct is to push you until you break, just to see how hard I have to press... but I resist it, because fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up. I've seen it... it's fascinating.”
― Veronica Roth

“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

“... 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 don't hate anybody," Tobias said calmly. "It's strange, but right now, I don't even hate the Yeerks. It's like, they're trying to survive. And we're trying to survive. I'm not really sure why it has to be an either-or thing.”
― K. A. Applegate

“He glanced from side to side, searching for an answer, but all he found was ash.”
― Jenna Moreci, The Savior's Champion

“Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged. (Four from the Divergent trilogy)”
― Veronica Roth

“Now you’re a reader also?” Rising anger tinged Tobias’s voice.
“It’ll be good practice.” Roden settled onto his bed with a book.
Tobias’s face reddened. “You think this will convince Conner of anything? I’m twice as smart as either of you.”
“And half as strong as me or Roden, even if we’re asleep,” I said. “You have to do better, Tobias.”
“Is that a challenge?” he asked.
“I’d never challenge an inferior. Now go to sleep. You’ll need rest before whatever humiliation comes your way tomorrow.”
“You sleep,” Tobias said. “You’ll need some strength for sneaking out later tonight.”
― Jennifer A. Nielsen, The False Prince

“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

“It unsettles me to see her so agitated, like the ground I'm standing on is no longer solid.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“I touch her cheek to slow the kiss down, holding her mouth on mine so I can feel every place where our lips touch and every place where they pull away. I savor the air we share in the second afterwards and the slip of her nose across mine. I think of something to say, but it is too intimate, so I swallow it. A moment later I decide I don't care.

"I wish we were alone," I say as I back out of the cell.

She smiles. "I almost always wish that.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“He is a part of me, always will be, and I am a part of him, too. I don't belong to Abnegation, or Dauntless, or even the Divergent. I don't belong to the Bureau or the experiment or the firnge. I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me- they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could. I love my brother. I love him, and he is quaking with terror at the though of death. I love him and all I can think, all I can hear in my mind, are the words I said to him a few days ago : I would never deliver you to your own execution”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

“”
― K.A. Applegate, The Android

“They've survived without killing. Doesn't something about that make you jealous? Don't you wish we could say the same? Don't you wish Homo sapiens could face the universe and honestly say, "We do not kill. We don't enslave. We don't make war"?”
― K.A. Applegate, The Android