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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!

Veronica Roth

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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
Actually
Utopia
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Stories
Conflict
Everything
Created
Without
Succeed
World
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Fear doesn't shut you down it wakes you up
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Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life
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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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Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.
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What do I believe? I do not know I do not know I do not know.
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.
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Tris, Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, Beatrice. He laughs weakly. Beatrice, he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt.
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Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
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Looking at her is like waking up.
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The person you became with her is worth being.
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It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
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