Veronica Roth
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Why did you do it? I say. You want me dead. You were willing to do it yourself! What changed? He presses his lips together and doesn't look away, not for a long time. Then he opens his mouth, hesitates, and finally says, I can't be in anyone's debt. Okay? The idea that I owed you something made me sick. I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling like I was going to vomit. Indebted to a stiff? It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. And I couldn't have it.

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