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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.
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
Shattered
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I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.
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I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
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I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here, I say. I know they're hidden, but I need access to them. And what do you intend to do? she says. Shoot them, I say, rolling my eyes. That isn't funny.
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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
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Leave her out of this Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing
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But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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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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Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.
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We don't need you as an ally. We're Dauntless. -Tori
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But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
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Is there any other way to Erudite headquarters? I say. Not that I now of, says Cara. Unless you want to jump from one roof to another. She laughs a little as she says it, like it's a joke. I raise my eyebrows at her. Wait, she says. You aren't considering---?
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton
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This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.
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She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.
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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
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What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
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I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, I don't know, guys! Just wait. That's what I'm doing!
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Human reason can excuse any evil that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
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