It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

This was what being cured was like: like being in a fishbowl, circling always inside the same glass.

But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.

I'm starved for different light, a different sun,different sky.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.