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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.

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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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Suicide
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What? I ask. I'm developing a theory. And it is? She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, That you have a death wish.
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It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
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I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]
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Human reason can excuse any evil.
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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.
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By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
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Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Why is your heart racing Tris?
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The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
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You won, Four mutters. Stop. I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes are too wide they look alarmed.
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From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
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I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem it's mine.
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