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Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

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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
Understand
Death
Something
Life
Mystery
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Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.
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I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.
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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.
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Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.
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Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.
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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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The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
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You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will
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Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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What irritates me most about him is his natural goodness, his inborn selflessness.
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When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and stuff. But when a book comes out, it's just hundreds of opinions and you have to learn to separate out the ones you want to listen to or figure out many you want to listen to.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.
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He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
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People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’
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Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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What makes you different, makes you dangerous.
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