“I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right?Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten.”

American novelist and short story writer

Veronica Anne Roth is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for the bestselling Divergent trilogy, which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide. Her work is closely associated with young adult fiction and with the success of the Divergent books in particular. Those novels made her a widely read contemporary author and established her reputation as a writer for a large global audience.