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

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
Mystery
Already
Understand
Death
Something
Life

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But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.
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Human reason can excuse any evil.
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You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
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Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
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The person you became with her is worth being.
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I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.
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And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel the Erudite, intelligent but vain the Amity, peaceful but passive the Candor, honest but inconsiderate the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.
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We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
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You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
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I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
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You were afraid of shooting people? No, I say. I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill. How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
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Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.
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I love you I say. I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
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I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name. I used a gun like this to defend my father and brother from simulation-bound Dauntless. I used it to stop Eric from shooting Tobias in the head. It is not inherently evil. It is just a tool.
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You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl. I roll my eyes. Not claustrophobic people, Tris.
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Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that something is a fake bathroom break.
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I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
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