Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

Tampons. I’m constantly worrying about my stash and if I’ll be able to find more.

I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.