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Change, like healing, takes time.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Healing
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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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They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.
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We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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I never used to understand why people bothered to hold hands as they walked, but then he runs one of his fingertips down my palm, and I shiver and understand it completely
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Nothing else is all right.” His whisper tickles my cheek. “But we are.
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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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Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.
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I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.
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I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.
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But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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He moves his thumb in a slow circle over the back of my hand. It is meant to comfort me, but it frustrates me instead. I need to talk to him. I need to look at him.
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No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
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How can you fail a test you aren't allowed to prepare for?
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I ignore my fear. When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.
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He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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Yes, she says, her eyes bright with tears. My dear child, you've done so well.
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He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want.’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod.
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He pus his lips next to my ear and says, “You look good, Tris.
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