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Looking away is submissive. Looking [..] in the eye is a challenge.

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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
Submissive
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Challenges
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Away

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Peter leans forward and looks into my eyes. The serum will go into effect in one minute, he says. Be brave, Tris. My heart begins to race. Why would Peter tell me to be brave? Why would he offer any kind words at all?
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Evil depends on where you're standing.
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I take a deep breath. I'm not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but know that I've acknowledge it, it's impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. It writhes in my stomach and throat. I need to leave. I need the truth.
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Which means that in order to defeat her, I have to think of a way to defeat myself. And how can I be a better fighter than myself, if she knows the same strategies I know, and is exactly as resourceful and clever as I am?
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It's time to be with my brother now
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No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.
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No. Because it's so stupid no Dauntless with any sense would speak it, let alone think it. Pansycake. What are you, twelve? And a half, he says.
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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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About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.
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How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.
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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
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But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
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Are you conceding?' he says, his mouth falling open with mock surprise. 'Seems like that serum did you some good after all...' I shove him as hard as I can. 'Take that back. Take it back now.' 'Okay, okay!' He puts up his hands. 'It's just... I'm not very nice either, you know. That's why I like you so- ' 'Out!' I shout, pointing at the door.
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Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
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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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Tris.” I keep staring. “Tris.” I finally look at him. “I just don’t want to lose you.
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I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS
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I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.
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One choice can transform you!
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