"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."
"What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?"she says after a few minutes of silence have passed."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap."
"Sleep,” he says. “I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.” “With what?” “My bare hands, obviously."
"We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."
"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."
"I'll be your family now,"he says. "I love you,"I say. (....)He stares at me. I wait with my hands clutching his arms for stability as he considers his response. He frowns at me. "Say it again.""Tobias,"I say, "I love you."