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We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori

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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
Tori
Dauntless
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What makes you different, makes you dangerous.
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What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
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I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
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It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.
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We could visit him, suggests Will. But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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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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You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
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You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how smart he is and that if I’m not careful he’ll notice that I keep staring at her, and that will be my undoing.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
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He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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