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Half of bravery is perspective.

Veronica Roth

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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
Bravery
Perspective
Half

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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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Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.
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Evil depends on where you're standing.
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though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.
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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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I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.
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Who cares about everyone? What about me?
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Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.
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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say. “No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.” He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talked about it.
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Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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Lies require commitment.
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I think I speak for everyone, he says, when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless.
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How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
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Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
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