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“Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but theyre also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Acheb...”
“Ella! the voice yells, but I cannot tell where it is coming from. The sound wraps around me, spreading like spilt water and then evaporating into silence.Where am I? I whisper again.The darkness st...”
“More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through...”
“Images of broken light dance behind my eyelids. How could this giant lamp compare to the sun?Everything is wrong here. Shattered. Broken.Like the light.Like me.I never thought about how important t...”
“I can think of nothing but the stars. It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars. They are all that I have ever dreamed of; they are ...”
“But Amy," Elder says. "Space suits!”
“And I try to remember if this happened before, because this is a memory I would want to keep.But there is no echo of it in my mind.”
“...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.”
“I guess when someone's gone from your life for a while, all you think about are the big things. The big regrets, the could-have, should-haves. Or the big moments, the memories that are going to be ...”
“Im sorry. The two most inadequate words in the English language.”
“What else can you tell me? Dad stares at me. What have you learned while you were awake?I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the...”
“Im here and hes not. That Im alive and hes”
“Ive heard that when youre in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and youre hyper-aware of whats...”
“Mom used to say that the thoughts in our heads were nothing more than electrical impulses. I remember Dad and her talking about this over dinner. It frustrated Dad that the human brain can fire ele...”
“I have no emotions. I just stand there, in the rubble of my life.This this was my home. If it were a person, this would be a gaping chest wound, the kind no one can recover from.”
“I reached inside her and pulled out the deepest memories in her body, the memories that words cant describe, the memories that are as much a piece of her as her arms and legs. Those are the ones sh...”
“We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.”
“Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of he”
“The freedom of our people is more important! Julie says fiercely. We will never stop fighting, never stop working for what is right!Jack just smiles at her. Thats a nice lie to believe, he says.”
“I try not to look obvious as I wait for Moms answer. I feel as if I am on the edge of a knife, my feet being sliced by the blade, teetering toward one side or the other.Oh, of course! Mom exclaims,...”
