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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.

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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
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Bereaved
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Noise
Guilty

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I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands perfectly between two of his. The warmth of his skin overwhelms the ache in my fingers from holding the bars. You all right? he asks, pressing our hands together. Yeah. He starts to laugh.
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Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.
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Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.
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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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No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve? And a half, he says.
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Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
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The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
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I'm surprised you know that, I say quietly, since you left halfway through my one and only fight. It wasn't something I wanted to watch. he says. What's that supposed to mean?
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I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.
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Caleb, I say, I love you. His eyes gleam with tear as he says, I love you, too, Beatrice.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Morning, I say. Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
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The gun goes off. I fall.
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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