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“He believed in people. He believed that if people could only be shown the right way-the way to health and order, a way to be free of unhappiness-they would make the right choice. They would obey.”
“Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked...”
“That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.”
“We are all punished for the lives we have chosen, in one way or another.”
“Raven looks at me. What about you, Lena?I can feel Alexs eyes on me. My mouth is so dry; the sun is so blinding. I look away, toward the hundreds and hundreds of people who have been driven out of ...”
“Power isn't free. Energy isn't free. It has to be earned.”
“An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.”
“Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.”
“This is not the person I wanted to become: Hatred has carved a permanent place inside me, a hollow where things are so easily lost.”
“I want to apologize to you, she says calmly.Oh yeah? For what? I dont have time for this. We dont have time for this. I push away thoughts of what will happen to Hana even if I manage to escape. Sh...”
“Alex, please.He balls his fists. Stop saying my name. You dont know me anymore.I do know you. Im still crying, swallowing back spasms in my throat, struggling to breathe. This is a nightmare and I ...”
“Youre angry at me, she says.I stop crying at once. My whole body goes cold and still. She squats down beside me, and even though Im careful not to look up, not to look at her at all, I can feel her...”
“I thought you were dead, I say. It almost killed me.Did it? His voice is neutral. You made a pretty fast recovery.No. You dont understand. My throat is tight; I feel as though Im being strangled. I...”
“He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.”
“I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.”
