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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

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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
Power
Good
Knowledge
Evil

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In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.
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It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
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I smirk as Peter misses again. I can't help myself. Hey, Peter, I say, Remember what a target is?
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I don't want to stop you. I want you to stop yourself.
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Thank you for your honesty.
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Well, I already know what happened to my face, I say. I was there. Sort of
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Can you be a girl for a few seconds? I'm always a girl I frown. You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl I twirl my hair around my finger. Kay.
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Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. And I want to be ready for it. (divergent pg.138)
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In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life.
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I am a child. I am two feet tall, and asking if she loves me.
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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
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His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
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