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I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

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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
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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So you're her brother? Says Linn. I guess we know who got the good genes.
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Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially
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It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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My dear girl. I am his family. I am permanent. You are only temporary.
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You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if you managed to do anything useful again for a long time This is the Marcus that Tobias knows. The one who knows right where to hit to cause the most damage.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.
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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful.
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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.
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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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You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
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Where's Marcus, Destroyer of Lives, going to meet us?
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If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.
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I do trust you, is what I want to say. But it isn't true -- I didn't trust him to love me despite the terrible things I had done. I don't trust anyone to do that, but that isn't his problem it's mine.
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