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Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias

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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
Alright
Else
Nothing
Tobias

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I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.
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If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
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Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.
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We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
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I am still the person who would have died rather than kill you
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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 like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
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A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
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Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.
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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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It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.
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I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. THAT'S why you like me! I exclaim. Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
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I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.
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So this is where you grew up. Did you like it here? I guess you couldn't have, if you wanted to leave.' CHRISTINA 'I liked some things and hated some things. And there were some things I didn't know I had until I lost them.' TRIS
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I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.
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You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.
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Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
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Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
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Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
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All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
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