"I believe it is the mark of a great leader to question the decisions that came before him."
- Marissa Meyer
"It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do."
- Faith Erin Hicks
"You mean she doesn’t intend to blow me up before the ceremony?” said Kai, taking the box. “How disappointing."
"Please don’t forget me, don’t let me fade away… I was here, I lived, and I loved…"
- Dannielle Wicks
"Everyone is trying to impress everyone else. to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are."
"I freeze when I come face to face with a naked man’s chest. Why does this keep happening to me? Trying to keep my eyes averted from his very naked lower regions, I look up."
"How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been change..."
- Aminatta Forna
"And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a..."
"...You are my compass star." And he was hers."
- Diana Peterfreund
"I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too."