My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior

Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you," I say. "Controlling you is.

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.