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Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

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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
Takes
Away
Insurgent
Sad
Guilty
Guilt
Heavy
Grief
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If the Dauntless knew about this, everyone would be getting in line to learn how to drive it,” he says. “Including me.” “No, they would be strapping themselves to the wings.” Christina pokes his arm. “Don’t you know your own faction?
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Shh,” I say. “Arms around me.” Obediently, he slips both arms around my waist. I smile at the wall. I am not enjoying this. I am not, not even a little bit, no.
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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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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I feel like someone is pressing me into a mold that does not fit my body, forcing me intothe wrong shape.
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Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
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Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.
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Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.
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My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.
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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I love you. He frowns. Say it again. Tobias, I say. I love you.
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Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
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Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
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There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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