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Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

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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
Places
Empty
Results
Dark
Knowledge
Valuing
Else
Lust
Power
Men
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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 am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
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I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
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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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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich
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Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
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But please, when you see an opportunity... He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. Ruin them.
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That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.
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That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.
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We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
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Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
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I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.
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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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It's time to be with my brother now
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