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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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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Hero
Dead
Forget
Time
People
Disappoint
Heroes
Improve
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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Morning, I say. Shh, she says. If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.
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Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and its been played on me twice.
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You can't be fearless, remember? Because you still care about things. About your life.
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Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just to run through your hallways, knock you conscious, and leave?
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We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are.
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Desperation can make a person do surprising things.
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i like to think that im helping them by hating them
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We are not people who touch each other carelessly every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
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We believe that peace is hard-won, That sometimes it is necessary to fight for peace. But more than that, we believe that Justice is more important than peace.
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I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.
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If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?
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I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
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You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
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'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
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No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.
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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.
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All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull and empty life, but he is at least a whole person, not this fragment of a person that I am, too damaged by pain to become anything useful.
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