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Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

Some people, when they lose it, they scream, they fight. I hope that would be me

Dislike is much easier to handle than sympathy.

This tug-of-war between wanting her, and just wanting her gone.

I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH.

She runs. Not away, but toward.

Am I not merciful?

If I breathed, I would sigh. I would scream. I would cry.

Beautiful? I've always been reasonably pretty - but enough money would turn even a cow into a catch.

The last thing I need added to my list of credentials is 'stabbed by a mattress,' in addition to a cocktail skewer

I never knew it was possible to be so miserable in so many ways.

Either he trusts me, or he's just that foolish. Probably both. He'd certainly have to be foolish to trust me.

I am frequently underestimated. I think it's because I'm short.

Just because you couldn't save everyone doesn't mean you're any less of a - " "A what?" "A hero.

He can't take his eyes off the stars, but I can't take mine off his face.

Love, and trust. The things that make us human. They could have been mine, if only I could have leapt. If only we could have leapt.

PLEASE CEASE ATTEMPTS TO OVERRIDE MY SECURITY PROTOCOLS, BYRON. FOR WANT OF A BETTER DESCRIPTOR, IT TICKLES.

What, did he think I was just going to melt into his arms? Start a tragic and dramatic tale of star-crossed lovers on a war-torn planet?

It's all I can do not to turn my face toward his, the way a plant grows toward the light.

No neuroprogrammer is stupid enough to make a computer capable of conceptualizing deceit.

THE LINCOLN HAS ITS SCARS ALSO. MY FINGERPRINTS ACROSS ITS THROAT.

Are you afraid?"
"Yes."
"Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms."
"I am still afraid.

Just once I'd like to look like I've got myself together.

And there it is, against all hope, like the sun peeking out from behind the clouds. The smallest hint of a smile.

She may be trained, but I'm fighting for my family, my home, my freedom. She's fighting for a goddamn paycheck.

The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.

A duet in code and electron.
Age and youth and cynicism and hope.

You don't understand the unbearable beauty of being you.

How do you live again, knowing what waits for you in the end?

But she's here, she's mine. I'm hers.

I had no idea how safe I was, because I'd never been unsafe.

You don't mention death when it's hovering near someone you love. You don't want t attract the reaper's attention.

Flynn -I'm glad you ruined me."
Her voice stabs my heart, because I recognize that tone. I've heard it before. "Don't start with the good-byes

Funny how I was old enough by sixteen to drink, fight and vote, but even two years later I am to young to respect.

I WOULD RATHER BE NUMB THAN STAND HERE IN THE LIGHT OF A SUN THAT CAN NEVER CHASE THE CHILL AWAY.

There's no what's next, there's only now, and this moment lasts forever.

What do you know of souls and hearts and how they break here? You don't know me at all.

And from the inside, surrounded by the joy and devotion and loyalty of my friends, the shimmer of rage on the outside of our lives looks paper-thin.

Though I feel I should warn you that you that you could be here for a while. My friends aren't really known for their punctuality.

Then she smiles, and it turns out she has dimples, and it's all over.

You'll face it all with me?"
"Always.

Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"
"Medium."
"Excuse me?"
"How am I supposed to answer that question?

And now, born from the ashes, she's a warrior in bloodied black.

She is catalyst.
She is chaos.
I can see why he loves her.

You could die tomorrow, you don't think you should kiss her today?

I'm not doing much at all. I mimght as well be a rag doll. Comes complete with matching shoes. Spine sold separately.

Perhaps bravery is simply the face humanity wraps around its collective madness.

But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?

All that matters is I love you, and the thought of you safe is the only thing keeping me going

It's not that he's choosing me, a girl he met less than a month ago
he's choosing a world in which no one has to die.

Maybe we wouldn't even like each other if we weren't fighting for our lives every second of every day.

Whatever they've done to me, Tarver, whatever I am
I love you. Don't forget that.

Don't look at me!

Lilac Rose LaRoux. Untouchable. Toxic. I should've been named Ivy, or Foxglove, or Belladonna.

That's so not your business it almost punches clean past the event horizon of Not Your Business and becomes Your Business again.

Lilac won't talk to me again. There's a tremor. Lilac won't kiss me again. I won't hear her laugh. My lungs constrict. Why am I doing this to myself ?

My brain feels like it's running on a treadmill in a pool of tar.

It's not about what I say, right? It's what I do that matters here.

The decker these ***holes brought with them is top tier, but I'm going to stomp his jelly beans so hard his kids will be born crooked.

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - Orwell

I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.

How is it that I can want him so badly when he's only been gone from me for a minute?

Now I feel adrift - except for the tether binding me here, to this girl at my side.

Why not believe, Syra? If in faith you risk nothing, but through faithlessness, you risk everything?

Letting yourself get hurt isn't brave, love. Brave is protecting others from hurt.

I would say inhuman. But your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.

And blood and tears and screams did not matter anymore, because at least they are together.

Or else I'm dead, and I've ended up in hell after all, and it's an escape pod with Lilac LaRoux.

There are monsters among us, it's true. But there are heroes too.

Now Miss LaRoux's getting my ass kicked on the sparring mats as well. Is there any part of my life that girl can't mess with?

Guys like this make me want to believe in God.

Promise me that no matter what you hear, you won't go off on your own to investigate. I want your word. There's a command in his voice, soft as it is.

She's gazing down at me, Stone-faced Chase, absolutely unforgiving, soot and ashes streaking her face like war paint.

Forget everything else. Forget everyone else. You're exactly my kind of girl.

..Look out at the nothing and feel it looking back. Then you know exactly how much you add up to.