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It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
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
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Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.
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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
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Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
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The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
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You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
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I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.
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Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.
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Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.
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I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.
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I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
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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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I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.
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I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
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I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.
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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
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And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you? he says. Mostly the same, I say. People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.
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