“I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.”

“My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.”

“Hes a lovely guy, but theres no spark between us whatsoever. It just goes to show, that even with all their fancy assessment tools, the government cant legislate for chemistry.”

“Its degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.”

“It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.”

“The Suitors Ball is fast approaching and it's a nasty reminder that my suitor will be chosen shortly. I feel sorry for the poor unfortunate guy, whichever one of them it happens to be.”

“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles”

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

“Homo sapiens! The name itself was an irony. They had not been wise at all, but incredibly stupid. Lords of the Earth with their great gray brains, their thinking minds had placed them above all oth...”

“The game seemed to be speeding up, building on itself. Right around the deaths of Tess and Selena, Id met the Sun.Were we spinning to an end?”

“Youre easy to read, Ivy, but the whole book of you is complicated.”

“My mission is not to make him happy and bear his children and be his wife. My mission is to kill him.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”