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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.

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
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You sadistic pansycake.
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What did you do? I scream. You die, I die too.
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I forget that he is another person instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.
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