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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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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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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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Morning, I say. Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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Human reason can excuse any evil that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
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At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
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Okay. Then...I can talk. Ask me something. Okay. He laughs shakily in my ear. Why is your heart racing Tris? I cringe and say, Well, I...I barely know you. I barely know you and I'm crammed up against you in a box, Four, what do you think?... Maybe you were cut out for Candor, he says, because you're a terrible liar.
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Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him I want to know the answer too.
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My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.
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Do it fast, you pansycake.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
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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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I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I shift from one foot to the other, trying to get a good look at him. When I finally do, I look away. His eyes were already on me, probably drawn by my nervous movement.
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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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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
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What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty? she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. Honestly? Does now seem like the time for honesty? I look at her from the corner of my eye. 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 understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.
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