So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.

I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

He loves you, really he does. He'd love you even if it destroyed him. He matches you.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?