Tobias Quotes

Change, like healing, takes time.

"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

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

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

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.

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

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?

I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.

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.

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.

Tris," said tobias. "I love you

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

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.

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

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?

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

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

It is impossible to erase my choices.