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He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

Veronica Roth

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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
Sweet
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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
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I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.
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It's time to be with my brother now
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...there is power in self-sacrifice.
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We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.
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I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Sometimes I still forget to look for the gentler parts of her. For so long all I saw was the strength, standing out like the wiry muscles in her arms or the black ink marking her collarbone with flight.
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One choice can transform 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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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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And I provide much- needed eye candy.
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I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.
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The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.
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How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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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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