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Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

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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
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I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
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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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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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My mother told me once 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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People tend to overestimate my character, I say quietly. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave
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Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138)
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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.
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i happen to enjoy categorization.
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Fine, he says. Then I love you.
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I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
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Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population? It sounds like she's smirking. Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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I don't want to try to live up to someone who's created something so incredible. I'm just trying to focus on what I'm doing and what I do best. It's sometimes hard to focus in and only think about my books rather than how they measure up to someone else's.
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