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Resisting is worth doing.

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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
Resisting
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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
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I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem it's mine.
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I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
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She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.
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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
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