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I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.

Veronica Roth

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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That execution will take place here. She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you. I knew what would happen when I came here, I say. It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.
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Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.
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What's this about flashing underwear? says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. Whatever it is, I'm in.
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I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.
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I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
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I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
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Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
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Oh, are we at the insult part of the breakup? she says. Because I got in a lot of practice after what happened with Will. I have several choice things to say about her nose.
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Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
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I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
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I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
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I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
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How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-
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You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
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What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
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