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So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS

Veronica Roth

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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
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I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.
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Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.
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You don’t always have to smack people in the face with how strong you are
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I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.
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That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.
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I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.
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It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks
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Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
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Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Just do what you're supposed to.
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I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands perfectly between two of his. The warmth of his skin overwhelms the ache in my fingers from holding the bars. You all right? he asks, pressing our hands together. Yeah. He starts to laugh.
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Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’ ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.
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Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?
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I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am just someone with a large prefrontal cortex...and nothing more?
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A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.
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Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.
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They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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The opinions of others cannot damage you.
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I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.
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