Tris's Book Quotes
"Someone’s knee poked into her thigh on one side. Someone else’s foot dug into her calf on the other."
"Her bones felt like huge rocks, pressed together so hard that something would have to give."
"The hot waves roared through the ground, gaining strength as they travelled."
"Every door and window in the attic was open, but not a breeze stirred under the thatch."
"Now she knew they were only pieces of real conversations that took place somewhere, carried to her by the wind."
"Magic was supposed to be grand and powerful - not a question of the contents of linen closets!"
"It was cooler up here, and they had a fine view of the cove below Winding Circle’s south gate."
"We could no more refuse to allow you the use of our library than I could fly."
"When we’re out of bandages, who needs to read the future to know more trouble will come?"
"Somewhere in the hazy, dark blur in front of her weak eyes was the twenty-foot wall that enclosed Winding Circle."
"You’re bat-blind without those spectacles, but you know where everything is, so you don’t even need a candle to get dressed."
"Better ask him where he’ll be if I catch him."
"The voices were gone and she was hotter than ever."
"The foretellers don’t expect more trouble, do they?"
"Magic, though, is what we need today - and magic worked fast, which isn’t what I want you to learn about magic, either."
"If you rely on magic without learning to do ordinary weaving properly, there will come a day when your great magics won’t hold."
"It would surprise you, the things I know you can do. Now, clear your mind."
"The cloth she wove must weave flesh, too, closing painful openings with threads of new muscle and skin."
"I am not looking after birds," the dedicate continued. "Those twitterpated fidgets at Water tell me that unless I brew more decoctions and oil rubs there will be nothing short of disaster."
"You understand you might work yourself sick, and he’ll still die," Rosethorn said at last.
"Starlings are annoying birds. Their fledglings shriek when they’re hungry."
"My dear, they lived for their own pleasure, doing nothing to help those whose work gave them the money to do so."
"I have a feeling that you may achieve enough in your lifetime to make up for the emptiness of theirs."
"Not everyone who loves a thing has magic with it, you know."
"The worst of the Battle Islands’ raiders, Pauha - she calls herself Queen Pauha - has talked a number of the lesser chiefs into sailing under her command."
"Winding Circle has its own way to discourage unwelcome visitors - no one has breached these walls in four hundred years."
"Every crystal and mirror in the seeing-room shattered. Every one! Even the water-bowls where people look for visions broke!"
"None of the mirrors or crystals so much as cracked during the earthquake."
"What could do this? It leaves us blind to whatever the future throws at us."
"The strangely baffled wind twitched around her like a bad omen."
"Tris shut her eyes and inhaled, creating stillness within."
"I'll die before I'll let anything happen to you."
"A pirate scout was reported in the cove this afternoon."
"It won't hurt to let the captain know what she says."
"I wish I didn't have to do this with you, but -"
"I need faults, to accent my excellence - otherwise, I would be too wonderful to live with."
"The whole thing's shining like noon at midnight."
"Once a merchant, always a merchant," Briar muttered. The world was truly a marvelous place, when a girl as smart as Tris Chandler clung to the very clothes that made her hot and cranky.
"Things might get rough here," he told them now. "The guards shouldn't have let you up."
"Sometimes a good imagination is a bad thing." Niko put an arm around her shoulders. "The defenses around the rest of Winding Circle are in perfect condition, and we aren't exactly helpless here."
"I must re-think my opinion of weather-witches," Moonstream said, her voice clear and calm in the ringing silence on the wall. "It seems they do more than just bring rain."
"You don’t need one." Sandry looked up from her weaving. "If Daja says it’s all right, I’ll sleep in her room, and Tris’s cousin can sleep in mine."
"No more beef at this table, not at these prices! And a copper penny for turnips? You didn’t bargain enough! You -"
"Don’t ever break loose from me like that again," Rosethorn said, her voice ragged. "You could have killed yourself and the girls."
"A little pain is bearable, to protect this place. And at least we’ve done that." She pointed to the ground outside the wall.
"They escaped?" he asked, his knees starting to wobble. "They got away?"
"I want a fog around this place so thick I wouldn’t know my mother if I stepped on her foot," Skyfire ordered.
"Unnecessary. I submit that senior mages are superior in their control."
"We’re just kids. We haven’t had time to learn hardly anything!"
"I’m sorry I lost my temper. You frightened me. I didn’t know if you would be alive when I got here."
"If it’s something ‘children’ can’t do then we kids didn’t do it."
"You don’t have to worry. I’ll protect you. Nothing will happen to you."
"There are spell-books here, centuries old, which teach things like making diamonds from coal and rubies from blood."
"I’ll just bear with it - he’ll free me when my debt’s paid."
"Anything is better than thinking about Aymery, and that awful soggy patch on his chest."
"I wish I could do it like you, it would be so easy."
"Will our battle-mages find the gaps in time to explode the stones before they reach too close to us?"
"We can't just act without thinking any more, Tris."
"What do you suppose her reach is, with lightning?"
"Served them right, they're just a bunch of murdering thieves."
"Most impressive, lightning-girl. Still, I might look around, if I were you. Throw that bolt at me, and you will not like the consequences."