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I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
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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Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.
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I look up, and stop breathing. Eyes glitter in the darkness. Dark shapes sit in the car, more numerous than we are. The factionless.
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Little girl, he called me. A little girl who is stressed out to the point of paranoia. That is not me, but now, it's who the Candor think I am.
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The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose...is there a term for The Candor? Of course.Uriah grins.Jerks
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You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.
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I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.
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I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton
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She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move
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Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.
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I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, I don't know, guys! Just wait. That's what I'm doing!
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Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
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I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.
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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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Don't you dare try to apologize. His voice shakes. This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.
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I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
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But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
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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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This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless. Max smiles. In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.
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