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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Persons
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Fine, he says. Then I love you.
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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
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Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering excuse me the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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Some things are hard to let go of.
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Did you ever meet someone named Caleb? I say. 'Caleb, Fernando says. Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class. Brilliant, but he was... what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up. he smirks.
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No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
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Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.
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Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
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I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
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Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.
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We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.
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Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.
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How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-
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I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
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Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.
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