Tobias Quotes

• I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.

  Veronica Roth

  Expectations, Parent, Example

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.32, HarperCollins

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• Change, like healing, takes time.

  Veronica Roth

  Change, Healing, Take Time

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• 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

  Loneliness, Lost Everything, Finding Myself

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Littles, Weak

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• "I'll be your family now," he says. "I love you," I say. He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say, "I love you."

  Veronica Roth

  Love You, Hands, Waiting

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, May 1, 2012.

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• That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.' 'I like you, too.' 'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.

  Veronica Roth

  I Like You, Nice, Sake

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

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Knows

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not

  Veronica Roth

  Should Have, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• The person you became with her is worth being.

  Veronica Roth

  Persons

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

  Veronica Roth

  Worry, Stills, Capable

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.21, HarperCollins

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

  Veronica Roth

  Father, People, Aspire

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• 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

  Eye, Thinking, Sky

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Some things are hard to let go of.

  Veronica Roth

  Letting Go, Hard To Let Go, Hard

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Infuriating

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• It is impossible to erase my choices.

  Veronica Roth

  Choices, Impossible, Erase

  Veronica Roth (2015). “Allegiant Collector's Edition”, p.15, HarperCollins

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

  Veronica Roth

  Scream, Dies, Insurgent

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.

  Veronica Roth

  Beautiful, Mother, Memories

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• Tris," said tobias. "I love you

  Veronica Roth

  Love You, Tris, Said

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• I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Pain, Father

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

  Veronica Roth

  Trying, Overcoming, Needs

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

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, Broken, Stills

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Veronica Roth

  My Family, Lost, Tris

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• I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.

  Veronica Roth

  Fire, Lasts, Bedtime

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• 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

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

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• I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Eye, Voice

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