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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
Strong
Eaton
Tobias
Stiff

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I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.
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God Tris, are you even human?
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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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The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
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I'm surprised you know that, I say quietly, since you left halfway through my one and only fight. It wasn't something I wanted to watch. he says. What's that supposed to mean?
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If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
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You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.
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I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?
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Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
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Eyes open, then, I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.
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I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be someone I can be.
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Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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