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I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.

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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I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.
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You promised you wouldn't tell her, she says, pointing at me. What happened to protecting her? I changed my mind, I say. Tris laughs, harshly,That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.
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I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?
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But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
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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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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias? Terrified, he replies with a smile.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
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It's stupid to miss a thing when there are so many people to miss instead, but I miss this train already, and all the others that carried me through the city, my city, after I was brave enough to ride them. I brush my fingers over the car wall, just once, and then jump.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are
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I don't know if you know this, Tobias says, but Edward is a little unstable. I'm getting that, I say. That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver, Tobias says. Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew a
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But Christina and I are not people who cry together we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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Don’t worry about me handling the pain, I say. I’ve had a lot of practice.
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'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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Be careful, though. Aren't I always? No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
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