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Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

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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
Good
Poison
Beings
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Human
Humans
Poisons
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Divergent
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I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.
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She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.
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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
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Morning, I say. Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape,” says Uriah. “Like he would let anyone do that,” she says, snorting. Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.
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I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
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So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
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I love the Wikipedia link chain because it has led me into some strange articles. Wikipedia is one of my favorites.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.
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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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You promised you wouldn't tell her, she says, pointing at me. What happened to protecting her? I changed my mind, I say. Tris laughs, harshly,That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.
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Well, I already know what happened to my face, I say. I was there. Sort of
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But please, when you see an opportunity... He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. Ruin them.
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Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
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That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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