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What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

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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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Do I look like I’ve been crying?’ I say. ‘Hmm.’ He leans in close, narrowing his eyes like he’s inspecting my face. A smile tugs at the corner of his mouth. Even closer, so we would be breathng the same air- if I could remember to breathe. ‘No, Tris,’ he says. A more serious look replaces his smile as he adds, ‘You look tough as nails.
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Caleb, I say, I love you. His eyes gleam with tear as he says, I love you, too, Beatrice.
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It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace.
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You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up
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Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide - they injure each other in the same way.
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Sometimes pain is for the greater good.
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Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care how much money a person makes.
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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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Independent and uninvolved. Must be nice. -Tris
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She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor.
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I used to think about giving my life up for things, but I didn't understand what 'giving your life' really was until it was right there, about to be taken from me
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I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.
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You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?
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The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, I say. Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
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Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.
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She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was Dauntless.
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Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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I like to think I'm helping them by hating them. I'm reminding them that they aren't God's gift to humankind.
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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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