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It’s not a perfect situation. But when you have to choose between two bad options, you pick the one that saves the people you love and believe in most. You just do. Okay?

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Drink this, she says. What is it? my throat feels swollen. I swallow hard. What's going to happen? Can't tell you that. Just trust me. I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth. My eyes close.
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I might be in love with you. He smiles a little. I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.
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If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not
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Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
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I don't really control the story. I just let it go where it wants to go. I have no idea what's going to happen in the end or who's going to live, so it's kind of like me saying, I don't know, guys! Just wait. That's what I'm doing!
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My Tris should look pale and small--she is pale and small, after all--but instead the room is full of her.
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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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Be careful, though. Aren't I always? No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.
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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.
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A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.
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If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.
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Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating. He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
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'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
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Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says.
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I'm surprised you know that, I say quietly, since you left halfway through my one and only fight. It wasn't something I wanted to watch. he says. What's that supposed to mean?
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