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I know some things--I know that I'm not alone, that I have friends, that I'm in love. I know that I don't want to die, and for me that's something--more than I could have said a few weeks ago.

Veronica Roth

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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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Alone
Dies
Friends
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Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.
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I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.
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Just do what you're supposed to.
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I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.
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From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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His hands skim my bare arms. “Just bounce a little when you walk,” he says, kissing my forehead, “and pretend you’re afraid of their guns” —another kiss between my eyebrows— “and act like the shrinking violet you could never be ”—a kiss on my cheek— “and you’ll be fine.
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i like to think that im helping them by hating them
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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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And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
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All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.
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So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.
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And then the screaming begins.
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He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.
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All I want to say is that when you stop being delusional and start feeling desperate because you're too inept to figure this out on your own, you know who to come to.
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I wake wondering how I did not notice, every day I sat across from her at the breakfast table, that she was full to bursting with Dauntless energy. Was it because she hid it well? Or was it because I wasn't looking?
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