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We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.

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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
Survive
Wouldn
Alone
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May the peace of God be with you, she says, her voice low, even in the midst of trouble. Why would it? I say softly, so no one else can hear. After all I've done... It isn't about you, she says. It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.
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You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.
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You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.
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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
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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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But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
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Evil depends on where you're standing.
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Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you? Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.
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Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
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I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.
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We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
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You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
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Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.
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The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I love you. He frowns. Say it again. Tobias, I say. I love you.
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