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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.

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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
Facing
Brave
Coming
Fighting
Death
Sometimes

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I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
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I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.
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I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
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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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Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.
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I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.
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So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
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I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.
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What? I ask. I'm developing a theory. And it is? She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, That you have a death wish.
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His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
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Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
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I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
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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 always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population? It sounds like she's smirking. Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
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How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?
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I don’t know what world you live in, but in mine, people only do things for you for one of two reasons. The first is if they want something in return. And the second is if they feel like they owe you something.
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