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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
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Divergent
Controlled

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All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.
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There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
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I was born for Abegnation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming factionless. But then I met 'her', and...I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.
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In order to have peace, we must first have trust.
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It is impossible to erase my choices.
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Don't pretend, I say Breathily. You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty. Fine. You're not pretty. So? He kisses my cheek. I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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You were afraid of shooting people? No, I say. I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill. How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?
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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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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read 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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I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of the threat my terrifying father posed to my safety. I was a man, afraid of the threat he posed to my character, to my future, to my identity.
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What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
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But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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