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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.

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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
Shattered
Survival
Fighting
Hope
Truth
World

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He's one of the last friends I have, she says, her voice breaking. I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.
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For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal turn into an empty field. The snow is falling softly now, and I can faintly see the city's skyline up ahead, the buildings just a shade darker than the clouds.
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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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Today you will choose your factions. Until this point you have followed your parents’ paths, your parents’ rules. Today you will find your own path, make your own rules.
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I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
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The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
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Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.
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Why is your heart racing Tris?
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
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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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At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
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I am selfish. I am brave.
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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
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I can't force you. I can't make you want to survive this. He pulls me against him and runs his hand over my hair, tucking it behind my ear. His fingers trail down my neck and over my shoulder, and he says, But you will do it. It doesn't matter if you believe you can or not. You will, because that's who you are.
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In that moment I know exactly what I want I want to peel away all the layers of clothing between us, strip away everything that separates us, the past and the present and the future.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?
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I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.
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