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Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton

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
Eaton
Tobias
Stiff
Strong

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I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.
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Faction before blood.
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. Wake. Up, Four snaps. You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.
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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 am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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It’s not a perfect situation. But when you have to choose between two bad options, you pick the one that saves the people you love and believe in most. You just do. Okay?
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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
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I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
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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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I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.
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We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.
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You're too important to just... die.
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