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That is death - shifting from is to was.

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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
Shifting
Death

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She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
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My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.
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All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I forget that he is another person instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
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I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.
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I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?
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Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
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Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?
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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.
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Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
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Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.
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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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What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.
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