Science can make a heart beat, Jack says softly, each word falling on me like a caress. But it can’t make it race.
Of everyone on this ship, even the frozen bodies of my parents, Elder's the only one who handed me truth and waited for me to accept it.
Nuestros labios se encuentran. Su boca sabe a cosas que no tienen sabor: calidez, vida, verdad, bondad, amor.
If we don't have that, what do we have to live for? Does it matter if it's a lie if it keeps us alive?
I think his chutz is up, don't you?
I can see, for just a moment, his beating heart in his ribcage, and then that, too, withers and dies, the useless, blackened lump tapping against his ribs before plopping out of his body.
Holding Amy against me, I realize the simple truth is that power isn't control at all - power is strength, and giving that strength to others.
Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.
And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
A leader doesn't make pawns - he makes people.
When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an aw...
She grips my elbow tighter, somehow finding the thinnest skin to dig her fingernails into. I want to pry her fingers from my arm, but when I look down at her, I can tell she’s using me as a lifeline,...
Prefiero morir rápidamente con el sabor de la libertad en los labios que hacerme vieja tratando de ignorar los muros que me aprisionan.
Maybe being alone in the sea, with its unexplored depths, its clawing-finger waves, really is safer compared to the land, where there are people and malice and death.
I have no idea why she needs them. I just know that I'd face another plague to get them for her if I had to. Fortunately, it's a lot easier than that. - Elder
Everyone has wounds; everyone pretends they don’t.
Don't stagnate because of fear.
A good book will give you answers to questions you didn't know you had. A great book will give you questions to answers you thought you knew.
You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.