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That is death - shifting from is to was.
Veronica Roth
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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Shifting
Death
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I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
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Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.
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If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained this is free.
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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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Are you conceding?' he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise. 'Seems like that serum did you some good after all...' I shove him as hard as I can. 'Take that back. Take it back now.' 'Okay, okay!' He puts up his hands. 'It's just... I'm not very nice either, you know. That's why I like you so- ' 'Out!' I shout, pointing at the door.
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That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.
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That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
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Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
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Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
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God Tris, are you even human?
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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.
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Half of bravery is perspective.
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