Love: It will kill you and save you, both

And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

An eye for an eye." "And the whole world goes blind," Coral puts in quietly.

The mark of the procedure. A real one. Lu is cured.

Most people don't want to be saved. Besides, if you keep bailing everybody out, they'll never learn to paddle on their own.