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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

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
Point
Dauntless
Free
Divergent
Fear
Fearless
Becoming
Learning
Control
Impossible
Four
Erudite

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She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.
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Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
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Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.
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Did you just call me BEATRICE?
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But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.
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What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
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But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
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