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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

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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
Behave
Guilt
Teach
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up
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All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
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But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
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I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
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Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.
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You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
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I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
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Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.
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And then the screaming begins.
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Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
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Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
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It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.
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Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human
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No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.
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