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She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
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Do it fast, you pansycake.
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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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Few people who are born into Abnegation choose to leave it. When they do, we remember.
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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.
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