Home > Work > Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)
141 " Come on, you’ll feel better after you get food and some sleep.""That won’t solve anything, either.""I know," he said, "but it’s a start. "
― Alexandra Bracken , Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)
142 " The thought occurred to me that she could easily take her knife and slash it though my spine. "
143 " He was alone," I cried. "He didn't have anyone with him- he must of been so scared. I told him we would stay together. "
144 " I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow. "
145 " How many times do I need to repeat the word for it to join your vocabulary? "
146 " We have to go get him," I said. "We can't just... He can't stay down there; he doesn't like the dark; he can't stand the silence; he shouldn't have to be alone- "
147 " And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can’t dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you’re made of. "
148 " Sometimes you’re the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don’t mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can’t dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you’re made of.” Despite how terrifying the story was to me as a kid, I still "
149 " I knew what I'd been when I'd found them: a terrified splinter of a girl who had been shattered a long time ago. I had nothing, and no one, and no real place to go. Maybe I was still broken and would always be--but now, at least, I was piecing myself back together, lining up one jagged edge at a time. "
150 " Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle. "
151 " THERE IS A CURE. The insanity of that thought made me feel like the hand on Jude's compass spinning, and spinning, and spinning, searching for its true north.He deserved this. I blinked back the prick of tears and let my anger rise to swallow the anguish for now. I let it propel me forward. Because Jude deserved to live to see this moment- he should of been here, now, next to me, suddenly seeing that everything was alive with the possibility of change. "
152 " Ir's just that nowadays people are so quick to boil you down to the bare bones of info and upload you into a system, you know? And I think no one can ever really know another person unless you really pay attention... I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. "
153 " the last place people tend to look for the hunted is among the hunters. "
154 " It’s just that I don’t like the quiet. I don’t like the things I hear there. "
155 " You are not alone. You aren't, even if it feels that way sometimes. You have people who are in your corner, who care about you like crazy. Not because you forced them to feel that way but because they want to. "
156 " I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too. "
157 " Life isn't fair,' I said. 'It's taken me a while to get that. It's always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You'll make plans, and it'll push you in another direction. You will love people and they'll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You'll try for something and won't get it. You don't have to find meaning in it; you don't have to try and change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That's your job. "
158 " Vida was back in the tent, humming softly, some old song I half recognized. I watched, disoriented, as she gleefully tore out scraps of White Fang’s pages, rolled each into a tiny ball, and threw them one by one into Chubs’s mouth, which had fallen wide open in sleep. "
159 " ...Ruby is fiercely protective and possesses the strong will and resilience needed to make impossible choices. I liked that. Very poetic."–Clancy "
160 " I don’t just want to see someone’s face,I want to know his shadow too. "