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I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

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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
Long
Unreasonably
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Naps
Cake
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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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I forget that he is another person instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.
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I love you I say. I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
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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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It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest. --Four in Divergent
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My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.
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I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.
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Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
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