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No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

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
Often
Selfishness
Doe
Extent
May
Kept
Kind
Goodness
Love
Rest
Full
Erudite
Seeing
Abnegation
Possible
Insecurity

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