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It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest. --Four in Divergent

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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
Selflessly
Bravest
Divergent
Four
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I have something to tell you, he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him. I might be in love with you. He smiles a little. I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.
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I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.
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Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
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Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.
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But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.
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People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’
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Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. Wake. Up, Four snaps. You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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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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You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.
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I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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Some people believe that I will go nowhere, and maybe they're right, but maybe they're not.
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I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
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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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I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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