We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered.

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.

Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.