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Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.

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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
Awkwardness
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No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
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It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.
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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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I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.
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I point at a window to my left, and it explodes. Particles of glass rain over us. ‘You’ll have to do better than that,' I say.
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I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.
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We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
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I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?
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I will be my undoing, If I become my obsession. I will forget the ones I love, If I do not serve them. I will war with others, If I refuse to see them. Therefore, I choose to turn away From my reflection, To rely not on myself But on my brothers and sisters, To project always outward Until I disappear [And only God remains.]
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What? I ask. I'm developing a theory. And it is? She picks up her hamburger, grins, and says, That you have a death wish.
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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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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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Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population? It sounds like she's smirking. Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
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I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
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The person you became with her is worth being.
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Oh for god's sake. I'll just carry you.
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Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
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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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