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There are no safe rooms, no safe truths, no safe secrets to tell.

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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
Secrets
Truths
Safe
Rooms
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Tell

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His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his fingers ignited them. I pull close to him, pressing my body against his, and lift my head to kiss him.
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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior
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It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
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i happen to enjoy categorization.
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It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working with you. That way, if someone betrays you, the loss isn’t too great.
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Evil depends on where you're standing.
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Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.
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The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.
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He pus his lips next to my ear and says, “You look good, Tris.
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Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is
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Out of my peripheral vision, I see Four shove the door open and walk out. Apparently this fight isn't interesting enough for him. Or maybe he's going to figure out why everything's spinning like a top, and I don't blame him I want to know the answer too.
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My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.
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The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed. The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy, says Marcus. How do you stop conflict without conflict?
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