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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"
"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 figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs."
"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.""
"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 don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself."
"Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating."
"People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."
"The person you became with her is worth being."
"She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself."
"It is impossible to erase my choices."
"She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love."
"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."
"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?"
"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 feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile."