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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

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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
Damages
Damage
Escape
Every
Life

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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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It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them
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I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
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Ingenuity requires creativity.
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My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
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Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.
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Really? I thought the transfers will go through Four’s landscape,” says Uriah. “Like he would let anyone do that,” she says, snorting. Something inside me gets warm and soft. He let me go through it.
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You're too important to just... die.
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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
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I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.
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...there is power in self-sacrifice.
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There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can, I tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. Should I let them? He stares at me for a few seconds. Go, he says, and God help you.
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Our eyes meet. I hear a train horn, so faint it could be wind whistling through an alleyway. But I know it when I hear it. It sounds like the Dauntless, calling me to to them.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
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I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.
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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
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I met him while I was imprisoned, I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. I was just curious. I wouldn't judge him too harshly, says Fernando. Jeanine can be extraordinarily persuasive to those who aren't naturally suspicious. I have always been naturally suspicious. ... Yeah, I say. So have I.
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