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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

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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
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Gift
Cannot
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.
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Sorry, am I being rude? she asks. I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
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The person you became with her is worth being.
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A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.
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Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are.
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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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I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.
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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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Before we sit down, he puts his mouth next to my ear and says, “I like your hair that way.
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