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I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?

Veronica Roth

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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
Entire
Large
Personality
Someone
Nothing
Cortex
Really
Byproduct
Discarded
Anatomy

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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]
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What's your name? Um... Think about it. You don't get to pick again. Tris.
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
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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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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
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Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
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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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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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I have a message for the Divergent I am Divergent. This is not a negotiation No, it is not. It is a warning I understand. Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters . . . I will. . . . this will happen again It will never happen again.
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We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me 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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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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