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Tris," said tobias. "I love you
Change, like healing, takes time.
Some things are hard to let go of.
It is impossible to erase my choices.
Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias
I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent
The person you became with her is worth being.
"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."
I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
Because even a sliver of distance between us is infuriating.
If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you.
She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.
I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.
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?
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 his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. "Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?" "Terrified," he replies with a smile.
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.