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Just do what you're supposed to.

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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 don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
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You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you’re prepared to defend yourself.
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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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You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
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There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
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His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
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He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.
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Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.
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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
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But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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He's one of the last friends I have, she says, her voice breaking. I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.
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Peace is restrained this is free.
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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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