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Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that 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
Worth
Trust
Boys
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Eaton
Resisting

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It's wrong, he says. It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.
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I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.
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I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
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He looks like a man who has spent most of his life frowning.
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A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.
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No one's perfect, I whisper. It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it. I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.
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I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
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And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?
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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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I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up
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You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
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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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Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
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I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you? She shakes her head. I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.
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I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
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