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The opinions of others cannot damage you.

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
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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 want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.
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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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Yes, she says, her eyes bright with tears. My dear child, you've done so well.
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Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
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Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.
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I also wanted to ask you if we can talk to the Erudite you're keeping safe here, I say. I know they're hidden, but I need access to them. And what do you intend to do? she says. Shoot them, I say, rolling my eyes. That isn't funny.
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The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed. The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy, says Marcus. How do you stop conflict without conflict?
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That said, in the two weeks before I leave for the Dark Days tour, I am going radio silent, which means I will be avoiding the Internet at all costs in order to revise, revise, revise. I will miss you. Tris says hi, though.
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People tend to overestimate my character, I say quietly. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
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Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
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I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken
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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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Thank you for your honesty, Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around me are the words Thank you for your honesty at different volumes and pitches, and my anger begins to dissolve.
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One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.
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I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.
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