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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?

Veronica Roth

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
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Veronica Anne Roth
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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
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I need the protection of seeming weak.
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I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
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