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"The government was never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us- the ones who lived." - The Darkest Minds
“He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.” Alexandra Bracken
Hannah Acabal
"It feels like we should do something. Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory." "Its a minivan, not a Viking."
“I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side"
“Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see.”
“Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.”
“But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns…
“Where did she come from, and where can I find one?" "Picked this one up at a gas station in West Virginia, bargain price. Last one on the shelf, sorry.”
“I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..”
“Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?”
“...crackers..." a voice breathed out nehind us, "yesss..." Both of us turned, watching as Chubs twisted around in his seat and settled back down, still fast asleep. I pressed a hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. Liam rolled his…
“They were never scared of the kids who might die, or the empty spaces they would leave behind. They were afraid of us-the ones who lived.”
“Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can. We can go anywhere you want. I’m not your parents. I’m not going to abandon you or send you away, not ever.”
“It feels like we should do something," he said. "Like, send her off on a barge out to sea and set her on fire. Let her go out in a blaze of glory." Chubs raised an eyebrow. "It's a minivan, not a Viking.”
“He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.”
“Did you know...you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breath? I'll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight...and it's like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.”
“Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.”
“We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.”
The darkest minds hide behind the most unlikely faces.
“So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization.…
“You can destroy a factory, and they'll build another. But once you destroy a life, that's it. You never get that person back.”
“No spinning," I said. I wasn't sure my head or heart could take it. Up close, he was so warm, and so beautiful. I was already dizzy enough.
“We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.”
“Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.”
“But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.”