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And I provide much- needed eye candy.

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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
Candy
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Needed
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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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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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So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?
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Yes, she says, her eyes bright with tears. My dear child, you've done so well.
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Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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When I look at the Abnegation lifestyle as an outsider, I think it’s beautiful. When I watch my family move in harmony when we go to dinner parties and everyone cleans together afterward without having to be asked when I see Caleb help strangers carry their groceries, I fall in love with this life all over again.
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It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks
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A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.
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Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here--- every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.
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Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. Wake. Up, Four snaps. You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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Be careful, though. Aren't I always? No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
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You promised you wouldn't tell her, she says, pointing at me. What happened to protecting her? I changed my mind, I say. Tris laughs, harshly,That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.
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We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.
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I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
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For someone so small, you're heavy, Stiff, he mutters.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I’m not anyone,” he says. “I’m nobody. That’s what being factionless is.
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The opinions of others cannot damage you.
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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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