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He's one of the last friends I have, she says, her voice breaking. I don't know if I'll ever be able to look at you the same way again.
Veronica Roth
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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Veronica Anne Roth
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It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.
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That execution will take place here. She runs her fingertips over the table beneath her. On this table. I thought it would be interesting to show you. I knew what would happen when I came here, I say. It's just a table. And I'd like to go back to my room now.
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He touches my face, covering my cheeks with his hands, sliding his fingertips down my neck, fitting his fingers to the slight curve of my hips. I can't stop.
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I laugh shakily. ‘You’re a little scary, Four.’ ‘Do me a favor,’ he says, ‘and don’t call me that.’ ‘What should I call you, then?’ ‘Nothing.’ He takes his hand from my face. ‘Yet.
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His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
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Well, technology is supposed to make life better, she says. No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.
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I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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Change, like healing, takes time.
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.
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Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.
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In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay.
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Blood is a strange color. It's darker than you expect it to be.
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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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You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.
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Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
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This is bizarre, I say. I think it's beautiful, he says. I give him a look. What? He laughs a little. They each have an equal role in government they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care it makes them kind. I think that's beautiful.
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Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?
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Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and anger, and the wrong is forgotten.
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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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