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They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

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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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Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.
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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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She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
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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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When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.
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I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.
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I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
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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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