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Half of bravery is perspective.
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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Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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Honesty leads to peace.
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You were afraid of shooting people? No, I say. I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill. How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
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Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
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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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Leave her out of this Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing
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But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.
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I notice, however, that Peter only pretends to inject himself—when he presses the plunger down, the fluid runs down his throat, and he wipes it casually with a sleeve. I wonder what it feels like to volunteer to forget everything.
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Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.
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I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
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I feel a thread tugging me again, but this time I know that it isn’t some sinister force dragging me toward death. This time I know it’s my mother's hand, drawing me into her arms. And I go gladly into her embrace.
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I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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I laugh shakily. ‘You’re a little scary, Four.’ ‘Do me a favor,’ he says, ‘and don’t call me that.’ ‘What should I call you, then?’ ‘Nothing.’ He takes his hand from my face. ‘Yet.
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Human reason can excuse any evil that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
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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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Evil depends on where you're standing.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that something is a fake bathroom break.
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You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
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