28 quotes found
“The boy who walks in the light”
“I ALMOST KISSED THE GIRL LAST NIGHT.”
“I enlarge the photo again. Nope, too blurry”
“Logic will save you when nothing else will.”
“Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
“A crack of lightning, an explosion of thunder, the sound of pounding rain.”
“I don't know if anyone's ever told you this", he begins. He doesn't blush, and his eyes don't dart away. Instead I find myself staring into a pair of oceans - one perfect, the other blemished by th...”
“Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to...”
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.”
“In the mirror, I look the same. But I am a different person inside.I am a prodigy who knows the truth. I know exactly what I'm going to do.”
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
“It's strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But...sometimes it feels like we're the same person born into two different worlds.”
“But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her.”
“I'm supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.”
“Dust everywhere... and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I'd ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.”
“Her sadness makes her impossibly beautiful, like snow blanketing a barren landscape.”
“She's pretty in a way that distracts me just like she did in the Skiz ring. No, pretty's not the right word. Beautiful.”
“At this moment, all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair.”
“I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt yo...”
“What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.”
“You're brilliant,"he says."But you're a fool to stay with someone like me."I close my eyes at the touch of his hand."Then we are both fools.”
“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer.I will hunt you down. I will scour...”
“You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?"June has never looked more beautifu...”
