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If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

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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
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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population? It sounds like she's smirking. Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.
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Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.
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For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.
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People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.
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My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
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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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No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.
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I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
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Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
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Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.
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The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
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What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too. I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
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