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

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

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.

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

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

The person you became with her is worth being.

Tris," said tobias. "I love you

Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.

Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

It is impossible to erase my choices.

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.

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?