What you really want to know, I say, is how to make sure we all don’t just rip each other apart, right? The fight earlier is way too fresh in our minds. We are a powder keg; just a spark will blow us...
Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone. A few people look up politely; some actually smile. Most, however, look wary at best, disgusted at worse. The nurse closest...
I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
I gaze out, to the stars. I remember the first time I saw real stars, through the hatch window. They were beautiful then, but now, seeing them here, all around me, beautiful feels like an inadequate w...
I would use the same word to describe both my joy and the rain: torrential. This—this—this is all I ever wanted from the world: wide-open spaces and cooling rain and the chance to run.
And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
I’ve heard that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, like a car accident or a gunfight, all your senses shoot up to almost superhuman level, everything slows down, and you’re hyper-aware of what’...
The President called it the Epitome of the American dream. Daddy called it the unholy alliance of business and government. But all it really was, was America giving up. Bailing out in order to join th...
That—this—is Orion’s secret. It’s not that the ship isn’t working, that we’re never going to make it.It’s that the ship has already arrived.We’re already here! There—there—is the planet that will be o...
More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes, it must pass, but I have no more assurance of moving through time than I have that I am moving through sp...
Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.And nothing can be nice.
The dark sky.A hundred million stars.More stars than I’ve ever seen before. My eyes let me see farther, but they don’t show me the one thing I want to see. I would trade all the stars in the universe...
I might have the whole world now, but it's not enough if I don't get to share it with her.
I choose this, I say, my voice ragged with want. I choose you.
And I look at Harley, and the billions of stars are in his eyes, and he's drinking them up, pouring them into his soul.
It's always in the rain...
I open my mouth. I want o say: I'm breaking, and i need someone to hold me together.But no sound comes out.
Amy pulls away and looks into my face. Her pale skin is blotchy red, her eyes are veined and shadowed, and a shiny line of snot trickles from her nose to the top of he
I feel alone.I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twis...
Don’t you understand? You are Elder. When you take my role as Eldest, you must dedicate your whole life to this one idea: you are the caretaker of every single person on the ship. They are your respon...
