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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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Don’t worry about me handling the pain, I say. I’ve had a lot of practice.
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They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.
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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?
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Sometimes pain is for the greater good.
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But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.
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Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
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I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.
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Psyche you out? I repeat. I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that. He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.
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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming.
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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior
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I imagine the wave of water colliding with the rock and spilling over the tile floor, collecting around my shoes. Doing a little at once can fix something, eventually, but I feel like when you believe that something is truly a problem, you throw everything you have at it, because you just can’t help yourself.
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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
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It is amazing how pretending to be in a different faction changes everything -- even the way I walk. That must be why it's so strange that I could easily belong in three of them.
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