“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”

“Hes fine. Every time any of us are late you imagine were dead. You are no longer allowed to imagine anyone is dead.Im not imagining hes dead, I whisper, but Im totally imagining him bleeding to dea...”

“So theres this annual dance in a couple of weeks.The Winter Ball, I interrupt. There have been signs up everywhere.You want to go?I think about it for a half second. Will you dress up?He nods.I mov...”

“Nick leans down and kisses my eyelids. Loving you, Zara, is a full-time job. Its a great job, dont get me wrong. Its the best job in the universe. But it is not easy, because you tend to . . .Get h...”

“Well fight them. We took down my dad. Weve taken down so many since then. Well take down these jokesters too.I will never let anything happen to you, Nick growls into my hair. I will die before you...”

“How does that put me in danger? Nick asks. Its the first question hes asked the entire time. Devyn, however, has been Mr. Nonstop Wondering Question Guy.Because . . . I dont know how to say it, str...”

“He said that if I ever hurt you, he'd find me and kill me. I told him that if I ever hurt you, I'd want him to." - Aiden MacRae”

“The first one is always the hardest.”

“Finding is for things that are lost. You don't need to find me, Mayor.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”