"I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you."
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""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 Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her."
"Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real."
"I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along."
"An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share."
"There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it."
"Who cares about everyone? What about me?"
"If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward."
"We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness."
"It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them"
"I am selfish. I am brave."
"I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
"Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again."
"Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something."
"Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something." "Okay." He laughs shakily in my ear. "Why is your heart racing Tris?" I cringe and say, "Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?"... "Maybe you were cut out for Candor," he says, "because you're a terrible liar."
"She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless."
"Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent."
""What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.""
"Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long."