I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.

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

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?