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Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

Veronica Roth

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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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Politeness
Deception
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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You're more than Dauntless, he says in a low voice. But if you want to be just like them, hurling yourself into ridiculous situations for no reason and retaliating against your enemies without any regard for what's ethical, go right ahead. I thought you were better than that, but maybe I was wrong.
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And then the screaming begins.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
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If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.
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My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
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Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup? she says. Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.
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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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I would rather be dead than empty
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Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.
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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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Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.
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I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.
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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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We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
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