My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.

If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

Stupid how the mind will try to distract itself.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

They've lied about everything.-about the fence, and the existence of Invalids, about a million other things besides. They told us the raids were carried out for our own protection. They told us the regulators were only interested in keeping the peace. They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, maight also be a lie.

When you love someone, when you care for someone, you have to do it through the good and the bad. Not just when you're happy and it's easy.

I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you.