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But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.

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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
Control
Maybe
Actually
Fear
Dauntless
Fearless
Saws

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Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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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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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
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Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.
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His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat lives in my cheeks. I still don't understand, he says softly, how she knew that it would work.
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Someone shouts, Enough! and I think too much and nothing at all.
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