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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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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.
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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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No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
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My name will be Edith Proir, she says. And there is much I am happy to forget.
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Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe. And I know, without being told, that's what love does, when it's right-it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be. This is right.
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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.
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The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.
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I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.
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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.
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She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move
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The truth has a way of changing people's plans.
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I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.
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she sighs, then breaks a piece off the muffin in my hand. 'Hey. There are plenty more just five feet to your right.' 'then you shouldn't be so concerned about losing some of yours.' she says, grinning. 'Fair enough.
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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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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
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Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.
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