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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
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I hear footsteps and Four's hands wrap around my wrists. I let him pry my hands from my eyes. He encloses one of my hands perfectly between two of his. The warmth of his skin overwhelms the ache in my fingers from holding the bars. You all right? he asks, pressing our hands together. Yeah. He starts to laugh.
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Yes, she says, her eyes bright with tears. My dear child, you've done so well.
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Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
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I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior
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I'm surprised you know that, I say quietly, since you left halfway through my one and only fight. It wasn't something I wanted to watch. he says. What's that supposed to mean?
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I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.
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If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.
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