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No one's perfect, I whisper. It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it. I traded cowardice for cruelty I traded weakness for ferocity.

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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
Another
Whisper
Thing
Cowardice
Work
Cruelty
Way
Weakness
Goes
Perfect
Replaces
Away
Ferocity
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