Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.

Dystopian, by definition, promises a darker story.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

I like the idea of something greater than us. We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions. We are no closer to perfection than we were one hundred years ago, or five hundred.

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.