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1 " Using the handrail as leverage, I haul myself upright and face the sea. It’s been many years since I left the shore but, with the infinite patience of an immortal entity, the ocean has waited. Knowing I would return one day.‘Do you remember me?’ I grip the railing as rain blurs my vision. My rage is swallowed whole by the wind. ‘Is this the worst you can do? "
― Dekka Nye , Cold-blooded
2 " How could she, a girl who could love someone so unconditionally, be just as capable of killing in cold blood? "
― Dekka Nye , Shift
3 " He had never returned to his family. He’d been a blank slate, and one destined to walk the world until the end of days. Where in such a life was there room for affection? "
4 " She would change. With such power, she would become a different person entirely. "
5 " It feels like I have this numb spot, where all the pain goes and never surfaces. I know it must be there, but remembering requires a great deal of concentration, and I seldom allow my thoughts to venture so deep. I can confess to being a coward in that respect. Easily. "
6 " I feel like I’ve committed the most irredeemable crime – allowing myself to feel this way about you. "
7 " His life was sand through her fingers and the knowledge was killing her. Over and over again. "
8 " Despite all this, the wilderness calls to me more strongly with each passing year. Those distant mountains, always lingering in my peripheral vision, and the ancient forests. Immortal lungs of the earth. "
9 " Who am I now, alone in the wilderness? Who am I without my father, my sister? Who are we all, without this technology we’ve become so dependent on? "
10 " The boreal forest stretches out towards the horizon, its farthest reaches swallowed up by icy mists, while hundreds of lakes reflect the sky in vast constellations, glittering like shards of crystal.This is it, I think. All of it. Everything I need, lit by the rising sun. A view no screen could ever replicate. A feeling no city could ever give me. Air that tastes like freedom. A temperature that could kill me, a fragile human extracted from my world of wires. "
11 " The tent rustles in the breeze, and just then it feels like he and I are alone in the middle of this forest. Simply here because we want to be. Seeking nature, and each other. "
12 " I feel as though I am still out there in the wastelands as I head home. My mind is preoccupied with wondering what lies beyond the soldiers and the wire, the blistering sands and the endless sea – everything we know. I crave a different kind of freedom. The kind alcohol cannot give me. "
― Dekka Nye , The Dying of the Day (The Dying of the Day, #1)
13 " A haze of neon illuminates the network of streets far below, and the sound of the traffic is quieter this high up. Even so, I can just make out the fine-tuned engines of several ModBikes in the distance –electrons circling Descada’s corrupted nucleus.It’s an impressive view for a dorm, one of the best I’ve seen. It’s really no small wonder why most kids don’t discuss anything existing beyond the city. You could almost believe the buildings and lights here go on forever. This is our sanctuary. All we’ve ever known. "
14 " I watch Amara flicker beside me, a vulgar hologram. The drink in my hand is the only thing with the power to let us bend reality, live how we want, feel freedom where no real freedom exists. "
