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If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

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
Really
Dauntless
Divergent
Coward
Fail
Failing
Doe
Might
Matter

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