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Honesty leads to peace.

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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
Honesty
Peace
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You’re too important to just … die.” He shakes his head. He won’t even look at me—his eyes keep shifting across my face, to the wall behind me or the ceiling above me, to everything but me. I am too stunned to be angry. “I’m not important. Everyone will do just fine without me,” I say. “Who cares about everyone? What about me?
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It's like he knows, he knows I have a thing for her.
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I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself. Hey, Peter, I say, Remember what a target is?
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.
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His hands skim my bare arms. “Just bounce a little when you walk,” he says, kissing my forehead, “and pretend you’re afraid of their guns” —another kiss between my eyebrows— “and act like the shrinking violet you could never be ”—a kiss on my cheek— “and you’ll be fine.
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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
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Human reason can excuse any evil.
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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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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 slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
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To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.
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Tris, said tobias. I love you
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Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.
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He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.
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The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. Don't say I never took you anywhere nice, Peter says. Wouldn't dream of it, I say.
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I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me
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From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.
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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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I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.
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