"I 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."

Source: Veronica Roth on her book 'Insurgent' and feminism. Interview with Susan Carpenter, latimesblogs.latimes.com. April 30, 2012.