Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

I can’t leave now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won’t say it again.

We can’t survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to.

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?

The Amity Established this place as a safe house. No conflict allowed." "The Amity will have trouble enforcing that policy," says Marcus. "How do you stop conflict without conflict?

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.