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Who cares about everyone? What about me?

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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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Insurgent
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Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.
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But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
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Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.
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That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.
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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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I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.
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It must require bravery to be honest all the time.
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The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
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His hands skim my bare arms. “Just bounce a little when you walk,” he says, kissing my forehead, “and pretend you’re afraid of their guns” —another kiss between my eyebrows— “and act like the shrinking violet you could never be ”—a kiss on my cheek— “and you’ll be fine.
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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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The opinions of others cannot damage you.
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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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I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.
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Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos.
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I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.
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I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.
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And sometimes, if you want the truth, you have to demand it.
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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