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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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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
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Tris: Wait. So you have no idea what my aptitude is? Tori: Yes and No. My conclusion is that you display equal aptitude for Abnegation, Dauntless and Erudite. People who get this kind of result are..are called...Divergent.
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The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.
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I settle into their pace. The uniform pounding of feet in my ears and the homogeneity of the people around me makes me believe that I could choose this. I could be subsumed into Abnegation’s hive mind, projecting always outward.
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The official strategy is defensive pessimism, always.
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Caleb runs up to me and folds me carefully in his arms. I breathe a sigh of relief. I thought I had gotten to the point where I didn’t need my brother anymore, but I don’t think such a point actually exists.
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Fear, she says, is more powerful than pain.
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It's easy to be brave when they're not my fears.
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I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.
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That night we push our cots just a little closer together, and look into each other's eyes in the moments before we fall asleep. When he finally drifts off, our fingers are twisted together in the space between the beds. I smile a little, and let myself go.
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Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.
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But Christina and I are not people who cry together we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.
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That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
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Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
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May the peace of God be with you, she says, her voice low, even in the midst of trouble. Why would it? I say softly, so no one else can hear. After all I've done... It isn't about you, she says. It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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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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