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It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

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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
Cannot
Insurgent
Ceases
Earn
Cease
Gift

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She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.
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I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
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I have never had parents who set good examples, parents whose expectations were worth living up to, but she did. I can see them within her, the courage and the beauty they pressed into her like a handprint.
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But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.
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So now we all know, says Four, quietly, that you are afraid of a short, skinny girl from Abnegation. His mouth curls into a smile.
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We believe in shouting for those who can only whisper, in defending those who cannot defend themselves.
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I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.
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If I don't survive, I say, tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
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How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?
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It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too.
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He holds my face in both hands and kisses me back. I press into the distance between us until it is gone, crushing the secrets we have kept and the suspicions we have harbored-for good, I hope.
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