I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.

Everyone had told him to be strong for her, but Finnikin didn't know how to be strong for himself.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

I didn't know you had a girlfriend, Griggs." Anson Choi feigns surprise. "What's her name?" "I didn't actually catch her name," Griggs continues. "Lily," Raffaela says over her shoulder and this time I give her a sideways look. "Great to know that I'm in love with a girl with a cool name." "It's Taylor's middle name," Raffaela calls back again.