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It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.
Veronica Roth
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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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His fingers leave streaks of cold on my skin, invisible to the eye, and I think about wrapping his shirt around my fist and pulling him in to kiss me I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.
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We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.
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Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
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We can't be confined to one way of thinking, and that terrifies our leaders. It means we can't be controlled. And it means that no matter what they do, we will always cause trouble for them.
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Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.
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Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.
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I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.
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Human reason can excuse any evil.
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Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto
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I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand
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Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.
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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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But maybe what I saw as fearless was actually fear under control.
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It isn’t right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.
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I am selfish. I am brave.
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I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
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I'll say it one last time: Be brave.
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