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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.
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
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Veronica Anne Roth
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Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton
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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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But Christina and I are not people who cry together we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
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I forget that he is another person instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.
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I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.
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Did you just call me BEATRICE?
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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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All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
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