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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
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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That quality frightens me now, because I know what he told me: that I was broken, that I was worthless, that I was nothing. How many of those things did he make me believe?
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There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.
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though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.
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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
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Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
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He stares at me, and I don't look away. He isn't a dog, but the same rules apply. Looking away is submissive. Looking him in the eye is a challenge. It's my choice.
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I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
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It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace.
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