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41 " Has anyone else . . .""Hmm?" Grams walked the paper back across the room and took up her tray of hospital good again, settling it over me. "Has anyone else, what?:"Been by," I mumbled. "To visit."Grams gave me a knowing smile. "A charming young woman with a mouth that could give a sailor a heart attack? A sweet little one who brought you flowers? The one who spent half a day chasing doctors and nurses around, demanding answers about your condition? Or, by any chance are you referring to a very well - mannered Southern boy? "
― Alexandra Bracken , In the Afterlight (The Darkest Minds, #3)
42 " That's not very Team Reality of you."His smile matched mine. "Screw Team Reality - I'm leaving to join Team Sanity. "
43 " Now isn't the time to change yourself to fit into the world,"Clancey said his voice raw with whatever thoughts were storming beneath his skin. "You should be changing the world to accept you. To let you exist as you are, without being cut open and damaged. "
44 " They don't burn, do they? Not like us. "
45 " Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I'm Zach and I'll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows--but, obviously, don't because Ruby just told you not to--you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away. "
46 " It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever. "
47 " You keep going to your bad place," she added. "I have one, too. I get trapped there if I stay too long." "If you go to the bad place again," she said simply, "Tell one of us so we can help you back out. "
48 " Ugh.” Cole rolled his eyes, gave a small laugh. “In a move straight out of Lee’s playbook, I rolled over in bed this morning and hit the dresser. Already killing it this morning. "
49 " You want to hear the rules?"My heart jackhammered as I nodded. That same hand slid around my hip, up under my shirt, and felt warm and perfect against my lower back. I closed my eyes as his lips just barely brushed mine. His touch made me feel brave. It pushed the uncertainty back until it couldn't reach me. "The first one is you can't think too hard about it. The second is you say when you want to stop. The third is you do whatever feels good to you. The fourth is-""-you stop talking," I said, blindly reaching back to pull the door shut, "and kiss me? "
50 " Chubs is useful," I reminded her. "Please try not to kill him.""Yeah, yeah we'll see. All I'm saying is, accidents happen. "
51 " Revolutions are won with blood, not words. "
52 " Why do you have to take every good thing we try to give you and break it into pieces?” Nico said. “You let them turn you into this...”“This is who I am,” Clancy snapped. “I won’t let them change me. I won’t let them touch me. Not again. "
53 " Darlin', if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray's finest, I'd pick you every time. "
54 " The you that you were then, who you are now, who you'll be," he began quietly, as if sensing my thoughts, "I love you. With my whole heart. My whole life, however long I'm lucky enough to get, nothing will change for me. "
55 " Because," I said finally, "in the end, she couldn't leave her family behind. "
56 " Black is the color of memory.It is our color.The only one they'll use to tell our story. "
57 " Is this how you got around before?" Vida wondered aloud. "It is a miracle you dumbasses survived. "
58 " I wanted to live inside the feeling forever. "
59 " I told you not to drink that much water on the drive,” Sarah told her. “You never listen to me.”“Sorry I don’t have the bladder of a freaking sloth.”“You mean camel,” Sarah corrected.“I meant sloth,” the other girl said. “I read somewhere they only have to go once a week. "
60 " Are you okay? Were you hurt?""No, Gran, she's dying. She's bleeding out at your feet. "