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Evil depends on where you're standing.

Veronica Roth

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Evil

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No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
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What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face. “Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.” She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an underground tunnel.
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It's wrong, he says. It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
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Someone shouts, Enough! and I think too much and nothing at all.
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I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
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Faction before blood.
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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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Lies require commitment.
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Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
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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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He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
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This is bizarre, I say. I think it's beautiful, he says. I give him a look. What? He laughs a little. They each have an equal role in government they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care it makes them kind. I think that's beautiful.
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What? I ask. I'm developing a theory. And it is? She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, That you have a death wish.
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I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
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