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He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
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Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
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I have a message for the Divergent I am Divergent. This is not a negotiation No, it is not. It is a warning I understand. Every two days until one of you delivers yourself to Erudite headquarters . . . I will. . . . this will happen again It will never happen again.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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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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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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I met him while I was imprisoned, I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. I was just curious. I wouldn't judge him too harshly, says Fernando. Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious. ... Yeah, I say. So have I.
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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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When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.
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What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
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