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You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

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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
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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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Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training. Since when does overseeing include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?
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Be careful, though. Aren't I always? No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
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Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
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This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.
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Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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Don’t tell me you’re going to eat a mashed-potato sandwich
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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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Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
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We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way.
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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. THAT'S why you like me! I exclaim. Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.
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Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.
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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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I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
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What's this about flashing underwear? says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. Whatever it is, I'm in.
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