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She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.

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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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Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
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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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I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering excuse me the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
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His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.
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Leave her out of this Why? Because you're doing her? Oh wait, I forgot. Stiffs don't do that sort of thing
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I need the protection of seeming weak.
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.
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Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
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I would be shocked by the lack of security if we were not at Amity headquarters. They often straddle the line between trust and stupidity.
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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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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.
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Beatrice, she says. Beatrice, we have to run. She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.
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That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
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It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at your bravest. --Four in Divergent
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i happen to enjoy categorization.
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I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.
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There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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