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All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.

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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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Delusional
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He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.
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The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
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Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. Wake. Up, Four snaps. You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.
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Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.
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she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough.
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You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will
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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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I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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So now we all know, says Four, quietly, that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation. His mouth curls into a smile.
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I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.
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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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This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless. Max smiles. In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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You promised you wouldn't tell her, she says, pointing at me. What happened to protecting her? I changed my mind, I say. Tris laughs, harshly,That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.
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