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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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New York City
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Veronica Anne Roth
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You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris
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What good is a prepared body if you have a scattered mind?
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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.
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That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.' 'I like you, too.' 'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.
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I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.
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The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?
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Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.
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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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Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.
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I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?
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I look out the window again, taking slow, deep breaths into a body too tense to move. And as I stare out at the land, I think that this, if nothing else, is compelling evidence for my parents’ God, that our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel. -Tris Prior
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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.
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He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?
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Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, I say. Controlling you is.
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So small as to be negligible. It's strange, but there's something in that thought that makes me feel almost...free.
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I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.
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Why are you constantly escorting me places?” I say. “Isn’t there a depraved activity you’re supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?
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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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I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.
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