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It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin 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
Understand
Right
Tobias
Important
Divergent
Time
Ruin
Ruins
Safe
Please
Opportunity

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He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.
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Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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