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Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human

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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
World
Ability
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Humans

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I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.
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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
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I don't believe it is more important to move forward than to know the truth.
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You nearly died today,' he says. 'I almost shot you. Why didn't you shoot me, Tris?' 'I couldn't do that,' I say. 'It would have been like shooting myself.' He looks pained and leans closer to me, so his lips brush mine when he speaks.
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Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
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It's wrong, he says. It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
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I would rather be dead than empty
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All that land is filled with people, every one of them different, and the things they do to each other matter.
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But now I’m wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, “Dauntless,” “Erudite,” “Divergent,” “Allegiant,” or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us.
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Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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Reading is such a huge part of my life.
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I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained this is free.
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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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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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It is impossible to erase my choices.
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Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.
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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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The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
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