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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
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How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
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So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.
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Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear.
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I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
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I forget that he is another person instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.
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When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.
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We could visit him, suggests Will. But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?
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He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
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He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod.
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We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.
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Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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Well, technology is supposed to make life better, she says. No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.
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I realize that the decision might be simple. It will require a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation, or a great act of courage to choose Dauntless, and maybe just choosing one over the other will prove that I belong.
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His eyes search the crowd until they find my face. My heartbeat lives in my throat lives in my cheeks. I still don't understand, he says softly, how she knew that it would work.
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Fine, he says. Then I love you.
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It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.
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I might be in love with you. He smiles a little. I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.
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Be brave, Beatrice. I love you.
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I was so afraid that we would just keep colliding over and over again if we stayed together, and that eventually the impact would break me. But now I know I am like the blade and he is like the whetstone- I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.
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