All of you, wherever you are: in your spiny cities, or your one-bump towns. Find it, the hard stuff, the links of metal and chink, the fragments of stone filling your stomach. And pull, and pull, and pull. I will make a pact with you: I will do it if you will do it, always and forever. Take down the walls.
Lauren OliverEach step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.
Lauren OliverThis is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
Lauren OliverI start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.
Lauren Oliver