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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Whatever
Insurgent
Dauntless
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If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
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Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
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The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
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I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you
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I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward.
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One choice can transform you!
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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?
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I laugh shakily. ‘You’re a little scary, Four.’ ‘Do me a favor,’ he says, ‘and don’t call me that.’ ‘What should I call you, then?’ ‘Nothing.’ He takes his hand from my face. ‘Yet.
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I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
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