Quotes from Mary E. Pearson

She was a natural leader. This was where she needed to be. Letting her go had been the right choice, even if the decision still burned in my gut.

love's always a messy affair better left to young hearts

Be brave, be victorious

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never accomplished before. What we've done with you is groundbreaking. We cracked the code. The mind is an energy that the brain produces. Think of a glass ball twirling on your fingertip. If it falls, it shatters into a million pieces. All the parts of a ball are still there, but it will never twirl with that force on your fingertip again. The brain is the same way.

There were two ways to approach the inevitable—being dragged to meet your fate or taking the offensive.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten . . .

Betrayal tends to familiarize one with weapons.

You've always been two people. The Jenna who wants to please and the Jenna who secretly resents in. They won't break, you know. Your parents never thought you were perfect. You did.

Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't even know they're connected. Father and Lily were two sides of the same coin, I've decided, and maybe I am the space in between.

I didn't think about his world or mine or the future we couldn't have. I only thought about the warm light behind my eyelids, his soft murmurs in my ear, and the fullness of what we had in that moment. And we touched in all the ways of yesterday and more.

How many hours can one person spend locked in a bathroom, looking at skin, hair, eyes. Feeling fingers, toes. And the absurdity of a belly button?

It is good to have many strengths, Natiya...Do not sacrifice one kind of strength for another

My memory is coming back. It is curious how it comes. Each day, a rush of pieces, loosely connected, unimportant bits, snake through me. They click, click, click into my brain, like links being snapped together. And then they are done. A small chain of memories that fill in one tiny part of my life. They come out of nowhere, and most are not important.

Jase promised me a lifetime with him. He promised a mountain full of trees and a family that would grow to love me again. He promised we would write our own story. And I made promises too.

Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.

No matter how great a gift or skill, it's impossible to foresee every outcome.

May your horse kick stones in your enemy's teeth,

The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

On a small planet where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening orderly beat-sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, and artist, a scribbler-sometimes the beat is changed by one person at a time.

We talked about it. Love. Was that what this was? I love you, Jafir, she would say at any moment of the day, just to hear it said aloud. She would laugh and then say it again, her eyes solemn, looking into mine. I love you, Jafir de Aldrid. And it didn't matter how many times she said it, I waited for her to say it again.

But all I heard was a different kind of knowing, one that even Morrighan couldn't hear, a knowing that felt as sure and old as the earth itself. It whispered deep within my gut, I am yours, Morrighan, forever yours … and when the last star of the universe blinks silent, I will still be yours.

Multiple closets for different needs. Overkill.

It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control." "What about brains?" Ethan asks. "What are they worth?" "Brains are pretty much illegal.

Which weakness shall I tell her? "I walk funny," I say, and she's satisfied with that. (inside joke)