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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
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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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People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’
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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.
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When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.
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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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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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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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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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There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.
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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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Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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I'm surprised you know that, I say quietly, since you left halfway through my one and only fight. It wasn't something I wanted to watch. he says. What's that supposed to mean?
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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
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My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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