Best Tris Prior Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice." "What Choice?" "Dauntless," he says. "I was born Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But I met her, and... I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision." Her.”

Love Romantic Dauntless Abnegation Tobias Eaton Tris Prior Faction

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”

Dystopian Dystopia Divergent Dystopian Fiction Tris Divergent Series Tris Prior Prior Divergent Insurgent

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“You know, the kind of person who gets this tattoo is probably the kind that should keep it very quiet," she says, looking at me from the corner of her eye. "Or else someone will start thinking they're Divergent.”

Four Divergent Veronica Roth Tobias Eaton Tris Prior Tori Fourtris

Book:Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Intentions are the only thing they care about. They try to make you think they care about what you do, but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way, they want you to think a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you wont pose a threat to them.”

Life Four Society Be Yourself Divergent Intentions Dauntless Veronica Roth Tobias Eaton Tris Prior

Book:Four: A Divergent Story Collection

Source: Four: A Divergent Story Collection

“Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”

Divergent Tobias Eaton Tris Prior

Book:The Traitor

Source: The Traitor

“Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed. Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.”

Divergent Insurgent Tobias Veronica Roth Tris Prior

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“I was beginning to feel that I had finally found a place to stay, a place that was not so unstable or corrupt or controlling that I could actually belong there. You would think that I would have learned by now—such a place does not exist.”

Divergent Tris Divergent Series Veronica Roth Allegiant Tris Prior Roth Divergent 3 Veronica

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other fractions suffer from the same problem”

Divergent Dauntless Erudite Veronica Roth Tris Prior Beatrice Prior Chapter 16 Page 206 Page 207 Dauntless Manifesto Erudite Faction Manifesto

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“Hey, Peter, I say. Remember what a target is?”

Tests Target Peter Divergent Veronica Roth Tris Prior Chapter 13 Page 159

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“And when we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.”

Tobias Tris Prior Chaper 26 Page 338

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.”

Death Parents Insurgent Veronica Roth Tris Prior Page 364

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal-and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. It is maybe the first time I've seen Peter be truly Dauntless.”

Bravery Betrayal Peter Insurgent Veronica Roth Tris Prior Chapter 34 Page 378

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.”

Truth Death Bravery Tris Tris Prior

Book:Divergent

Source: Divergent

“Death could not erase her, she is permanent.”

Death Permanent Divergent Series Veronica Roth Allegiant Tris Prior Page 190

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“The minutes I had left with him fall away like dead leaves pulled from branches.”

Divergent Series Veronica Roth Allegiant Tris Prior Caleb Prior Chapter 45 Page 447

Book:Allegiant

Source: Allegiant

“I push open the door just as Tobias, who is sitting on the floor with one leg stretched out, hurls a butter knife at the opposite wall. It sticks, handle out, from a large hunk of cheese they positioned on top of the dresser. Caleb, standing beside him, stares in disbelief, first at the cheese and then at me. "Tell me he's some kind of Dauntless prodigy," says Caleb. "Can you do this too?" "With my right hand, maybe," I say. "But yes, Four is some kind of Dauntless prodigy. Tobias's eyes catch mine on the word "Four." Caleb doesn't know that Tobias wears his excellence all the time in his own nickname.”

Four Tobias Eaton Tris Prior Prodigy Knife Throwing Caleb Prior

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.”

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Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.”

Feels Air Lungs Divergent Dauntless Divergent Series Abnegation Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“One choice can transform you!”

Choices Determined Insurgent Tris Prior

Book:Insurgent

Source: Insurgent

“Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”

Leaving Knives Hiring Eric Divergent Babysitter Sharpening Tris Prior Sharp Knives

Book:The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant

Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant

“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.”

Thinking Knows Wells Heart I Can Asks Laughing Four Cutting Terrible Okay Ears Boxes Ask Me Liars Racing Candor Cringe Tris Tris Prior Beatrice Prior Heart Racing

Author:Veronica Roth

“Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.”

People Wells Matter Hard Enough Girl Left Attention Four Cutting Havens Dad Terrible Protect Yeah My Dad Liars Knives Selfless Spares Belts That Girl Candor Abnegation Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.”

Kind Persons Doe Boys Inconsequential Near Death Like A Boy Near Death Experience Tris Prior Beatrice Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.”

Feels Different Together Strong Shakes Pulling Tris Prior Shoelaces

Book:Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

“Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.”

Heart Mines Pride Flaws Als Dauntless Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“Well, I already know what happened to my face", I say. "I was there. Sort of”

Knows Wells Faces Happened Tris Prior

Book:Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent

Source: Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent

“One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.”

Choices Insurgent Define You Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“His fingers slide into my hair, and I hold on to his arms to stay steady as we press together like two blades at a stalemate. He is stronger than anyone I know, and warmer than anyone else realizes; he is a secret that I have kept, and will keep for the rest of my life.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.”

Ifs Knows Men Looks Action Evil Difficult Wonder Fronts Pairs Good Man Simulation Evil Man Likeable Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.”

Turns Revolution Peter Follow Me Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Looks Body Moving Parent Land Evidence Window Breaths Staring Massive Our World Compelling Tense Deep Breath Tris Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior”

Enough Parent Plans Blood Love Each Other No Love Factions Forsake Tris Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“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”

Lost My Family Assured Tobias Tris Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.”

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Author:Veronica Roth

“If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.”

Ifs Want Tobias Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.”

Tris Prior Choose Me

Author:Veronica Roth

“Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.”

Want Sometimes Awake Divergent Series Want To See You Grazing Tobias Eaton Tris Prior

Author:Veronica Roth

“Why is your heart racing Tris?”

Heart Racing Candor Tris Tris Prior Beatrice Prior Tobias And Tris Heart Racing

Author:Veronica Roth

“I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.”

Kind Persons Doe Remember Bad Things Fetish Cocoons Near Death Tris Prior Beatrice Prior Show Tunes

Author:Tim Robbins