I was just an okay person.

I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. —Jude

Owain told me about the beautiful, fair-haired Vesta. It took me several minutes to work out that Vesta was a horse, and that Owain was possibly in love with her.

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 on the playground swings for the rest of us.

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.

The Darkest Minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?