I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.
Veronica RothShe tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are whatโs making her strong.
Veronica RothWe are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.
Veronica RothCruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
Veronica RothI see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.
Veronica Roth