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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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She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
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Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something. Okay. He laughs shakily in my ear. Why is your heart racing Tris? I cringe and say, Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?... Maybe you were cut out for Candor, he says, because you're a terrible liar.
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Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
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For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
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I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own. Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias? Terrified, he replies with a smile.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.
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Well, technology is supposed to make life better, she says. No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.
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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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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
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We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.
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That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.
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That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.
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