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Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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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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Faction before blood.
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It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.
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If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
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I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
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Dead people can be our heroes because they can't disappoint us later they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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I figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left [the gun] upstairs.
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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