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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
Choice
Choices
Insurgent
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Determined

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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
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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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I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.
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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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Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
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I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be someone I can be.
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I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
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If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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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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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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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
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Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?
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It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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You were afraid of shooting people? No, I say. I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill. How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
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Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138)
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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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