I should probably be afraid. But instead a hysterical laugh bubbles inside me, because I just remembered something: Maybe I canโt hold a gun. But I have a knife in my back pocket.
Veronica RothThe cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.
Veronica RothBy the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and Iโm wearing a bright red dress. And thereโs a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.
Veronica RothWhen I look at him, I don't see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and i don't hear the excuses he gave afterward. When I look at him, I see the boy who held my hand in the hospital when our mother broke her wrist and told me it would be all right. I see the brother who told me to make my own choices, the night before the Choosing Ceremony. I think of all the remarkable things he is--smart and enthusiastic and observant, quiet and earnest and kind.
Veronica RothI have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct
Veronica Roth'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia.
Veronica Roth