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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct

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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
Theory
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Selflessness
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Instinct
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Life
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You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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Part of me wonders if this is a suicide mission disguised as a game.
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I have to admit that Christina is good—though I don’t like giving credit to Candor smart-mouths—and so is Peter—though I don’t like giving credit to future psychopaths.
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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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Ser sincero en todo momento debe requerir valor. Yo no sabría hacerlo.
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I'm a fairly religious person, so I believe in some things that sound a little crazy I'm sure, depending on where you're standing. I believe in leaving room for things that you can't explain in the universe, and you don't have to be religious to leave room for those things.
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The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed. The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy, says Marcus. How do you stop conflict without conflict?
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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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Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. Wake. Up, Four snaps. You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.
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I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.
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It's then that I realize: Of course Tris would go into the Weapons Lab instead of Caleb. Of course she would.
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It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.
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The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.
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