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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.

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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
Insurgent
Demand
Truth
Sometimes

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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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The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.
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In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
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I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
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But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
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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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When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.
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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.
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The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.
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There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
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Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.
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Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
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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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