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I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I can’t hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.

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
Laughing
Pocket
Instead
Bubbles
Hold
Knives
Inside
Pockets
Probably
Remembered
Maybe
Gun
Back
Laugh
Hysterical
Something
Afraid
Knife

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