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I can't tell him I need him. I can't need him, period -- or really, we can't need each other, because who knows how long either of us will last in this war?

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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New York City
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Veronica Anne Roth
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Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something. Okay. He laughs shakily in my ear. Why is your heart racing Tris? I cringe and say, Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?... Maybe you were cut out for Candor, he says, because you're a terrible liar.
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I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.
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Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.
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The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed. The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy, says Marcus. How do you stop conflict without conflict?
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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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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Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
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Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.
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My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.
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In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
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But Christina and I are not people who cry together we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
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Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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My name will be Edith Proir, she says. And there is much I am happy to forget.
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The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
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Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.
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You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
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