And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too. The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

I want to know." His words are a whisper, barely audible. "I want to know with you.