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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

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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
Sometimes
Drastic
Measures
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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
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I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, I don't know, guys! Just wait. That's what I'm doing!
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I am a naturally curious person. -Tris
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That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.
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Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.
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God Tris, are you even human?
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You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
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You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
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I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
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He's one of the last friends I have, she says, her voice breaking. I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
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We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
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