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I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
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