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You're too important to just... die.

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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
Insurgent
Dies
Important

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Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton
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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
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Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.
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Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.
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You think giving you a hug would give away too much? he says. You know, I say. I really don't care. I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his. It is the best moment of my life.
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But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.
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Well, I already know what happened to my face, I say. I was there. Sort of
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I met him while I was imprisoned, I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. I was just curious. I wouldn't judge him too harshly, says Fernando. Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious. ... Yeah, I say. So have I.
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.
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For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff, he mutters.
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I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.
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Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.
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Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
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What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?
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A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.
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