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I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

Veronica Roth

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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
Divergent
Controlled

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If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
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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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The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
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He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.
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I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
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Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.
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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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This was the first place I everfelt strong. Every time I breathe this air I feel it again.
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Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
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Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
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Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.
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People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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Can I ask why you’re throwing knives at cheese?’ ‘Caleb came by to discuss something,’ Tobias says, leaning his head against the wall as he looks at me. ‘And knife-throwing just came up somehow.’ ‘As it so often does,’ I say, a small smile inching across my face.
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Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.
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I love you I say. I love you, too he says. I'll see you soon.
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Faction before blood.
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I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.
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What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.
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