Tobias Quotes

Tobias Quote of the day

Change, like healing, takes time.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

Some things are hard to let go of.

I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent

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 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

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.

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

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.

"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."

I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.

Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.

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.

If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.

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?

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

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

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

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

The person you became with her is worth being.

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

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

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

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.

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

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Tris," said tobias. "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.

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton

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?

feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.

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.

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.

I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.

As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Choice?", and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision."

I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch

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.

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?'A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

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.

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..."