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Nothing else is alright. But we are. -Tobias
Veronica Roth
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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
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Veronica Anne Roth
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My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior
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People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.
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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton
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Did you just call me BEATRICE?
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Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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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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My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
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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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Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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I have something to tell you, he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him. I might be in love with you. He smiles a little. I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.
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Be careful, though. Aren't I always? No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
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You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
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He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.
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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
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...there is power in self-sacrifice.
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If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
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Yes, I say. Three of these flying birds. I touch my collarbone, marking the path of their flight - toward my heart. One for each member of the family I left behind.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.
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