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Sometimes I just... want to see it again. Want to see you awake.

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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
Grazing
Awake
Sometimes

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And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?
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Honesty leads to peace.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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I should wonder what courage—which is the virtue they most value—has to do with a metal ring through your nostril.
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I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are both trying to say something the other can't hear, though I could be imagining it. Too long - and now even longer, my heart even louder, his tranquil eyes swallowing me whole.
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Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.
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She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplace disgust for another person's genetics.
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A Dauntless Ferris wheel wouldn’t have cars. You would just hang on tight with your hands, and good luck to you.
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Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.
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Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.
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Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable.
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You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.
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From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.
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I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?
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Four! I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.
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But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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