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I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Selfless
Brave
Smart
Honest
Four
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Tobias
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I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
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There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
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It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest. --Four in Divergent
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But when you kill someone you love, the hard part is never over. It just gets easier to distract yourself from what you've done.
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She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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I ignore my fear,” he says. “When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn’t exist.” I stare at him for a second. I can’t help it. To me there’s a difference between not being afraid and acting in spite of fear, as he does.
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I open the door to the fear landscape room and flip open the small black box that was in my back pocket to see the syringes inside. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave.
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I look older. Maybe it's the short hair or maybe it's just that I wear all that has happened like a mask. Either way, I always thought I would be happy when I stopped looking like a child. But all I feel is a lump in my throat. I am no longer the daughter my parents knew. They will never know me as I am now.
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
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You're the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will
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Do the elevators work? I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. Sure they do. says Zeke, rolling his eyes, You think I'm stupid enough not to come here early and turn on the emergency generator? Yeah, says Uriah. I kinda do.
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We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.
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I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.
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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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