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Some things are hard to let go of.

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
Tobias
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No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
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Let me get this straight. So you left the Dauntless compound to get ready for war... and took your makeup bag with you? Yep. Figured it would be harder for anyone to shoot me if they saw how devastatingly attractive I was.
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The opinions of others cannot damage you.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
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So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
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Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.
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I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.
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You die, I die too.” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
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People tend to overestimate my character, I say quietly. They think that because I'm small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can't possibly be cruel. But they're wrong.
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If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.
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though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear
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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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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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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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I am afraid of her, afraid of what she says-and thrilled by it too, because it means I don't have to accept that I am smaller than I once believed.
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