"You are your abilities and they are you. I can't put it to you more plainly. Do you know why I hate this cure? It's a statement that what we are is inherently wrong. It's a punishment for something th..."
- Alexandra Bracken
"Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged."
"I'm not... I'm not without a heart,' he heard Sophia say, her chin raised, eyes straight ahead. 'I'm not. I just don't have the luxury of being soft. I am trying to survive."
"He could silence me, but Rob had no power over my mind"
"She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow."
"Like any girl, she still felt the echoes from earlier eras of repression. She'd been raised by a mother who'd fought hard to get a wage she deserved, to have access to education when she lacked every ..."
"What mattered was that these beliefs had swept through the souls of everyone else like a plague. He couldn't see the end of it. Even a hundred years in the future, he knew, the roots still had not bee..."
"And the open road rolled out in front of us."
"What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?"
"You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything."