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Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.

Veronica Roth

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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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You sadistic pansycake.
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But please, when you see an opportunity... He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. Ruin them.
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I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.
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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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I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.
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No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve? And a half, he says.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.
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But now, I am also learning this: we can be mended. We mend each other.
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Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
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Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.
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I’d rather eat out of a can than be strangled by a faction.
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I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.
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Did you just call me BEATRICE?
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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked.
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I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
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