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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Crying
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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You're not very nice, I say, grinning. You're one to talk. Hey, I could be nice if I tried. Hmm. He taps his chin. Say something nice, then. You're very good-looking. He smiles, his teeth a flash in this dark. I like this 'nice' thing.
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We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
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I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
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Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?
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If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.
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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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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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And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel the Erudite, intelligent but vain the Amity, peaceful but passive the Candor, honest but inconsiderate the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
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You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.
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Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.
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