In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

It’s easy to do right when everything goes right. But let everything go wrong, and see how difficult it becomes.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

I swept down the stairs to find Fade waiting for me at the bottom. His dark eyes widened, and for the first time since I'd known him, he was speechless. He stared up at me like I was everything he ever wanted.

My heart should be breaking, too, but there comes a point when you’re so inured to loss that you no longer feel the lash.