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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

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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
Motivates
Cruelty
Maybe
Desire
Understand

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The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed. The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy, says Marcus. How do you stop conflict without conflict?
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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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I stare at him. I feel my heartbeat everywhere, even in my toes. I feel like doing something bold, but I could just as easily walk away. I am not sure which option is smarter, or better. I am not sure that I care.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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Don’t worry about me handling the pain, I say. I’ve had a lot of practice.
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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
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He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
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I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.
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Any idiot can stand in front of a target, I say. It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall is a sign of cowardice Then it should be easy for you, Eric sys. If you're willing ot take his place.
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This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta.
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I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.
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I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.
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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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Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.
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That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.
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I don't know if you know this, Tobias says, but Edward is a little unstable. I'm getting that, I say. That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver, Tobias says. Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew a
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The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
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It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.
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They died for me,” I say. That feels important
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I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.
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