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A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

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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
Chasms
Divergent
Idiocy
Reminds
Bravery
Divergence
Line
Tris
Fine
Chasm
Lines
Dauntless

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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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I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
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I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.
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The gun goes off. I fall.
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We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
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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 doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.
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It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up
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So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.
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When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move
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Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
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Peace is restrained this is free.
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The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
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But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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