Clouds suit my mood just fine.

I’m so sorry. I am so sorry for everything.

She’s the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen, easily the most breathtaking girl in the room.

I laugh with him. I imagine mixing poison into his tea, then watching his face turn purple and anguished; I picture myself leaning over him, looking on patiently, with my chin resting in my hands,...

I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I’m tired...

Then I realize from the hollow sound of her gun’s click that her gun isn’t loaded. Apparently she just wants to slap me around with it.

Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting...

I’m supposed to hate you for what you did, I think. But her eyes linger on me in a way that refuses to let me.

Metias is gone again. He is always gone.

He returns my smile. His teeth are beautiful, the loveliest I’ve seen so far on these streets.

Maybe his nightmare had been about me.

You risked an awful lot for someone you hardly know.’ I narrow my eyes. ‘THAT doesn’t say much about your character. Perhaps you should wait until someone’s about to be executed for a mistake YOU...

You threw everything away.”I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes.”Your entire life-your beliefs…Why would you do that for me?”June has never looked more beautiful than she does...

I keep my eyes closed as tightly as I can, but in my mind, everyone in the square looks like my father and they all have his voice. I hate you all. I imagine my...

Algo enegrece tu corazón, algo profundo y amargo. Se ha enconado dentro de ti durante años,nutrido y animado.Nunca he sentido nada igual.

I know you don’t love me that way. Don’t you think I know that by now? But you don’t know how I feel about you. No one does.””Tell me, then.””Day, you mean more to me...

Where I come from, we’re more about efficiency,’ he replies. ‘A knife like this’ll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her.

If Metias joined the Patriots, he’d be a Hacker too. If he were alive.

Goodnight, June.

Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet.

I’m prouder of him than I’ve ever been of myself – I’m proud of him for standing up to me

to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.

I belong to no one. On this night, I swear to you that I will rise above everything you’ve ever taught me. I will become a force that this world has never known. I will...

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

Day will move on and live his life. So will I. We will be okay. Someday, perhaps in the far and distant future, we’ll find each other again.

Much better.

Without emotion, what’s the point of being human?

I’m not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.

I need to let him go.

So long as I remain in Day’s life, I will hurt him. Any other alternative is impossible.Now, he is free.

Before I can say anything else, he steps forward and takes my face in his hands. Then he’s kissing me one last time.

Yeah, something was wrong. That was the understatement of the year.

Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks.

He doesn’t know who I am.

I’d forgotten that a boy from the streets is no match for the future Princeps.

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

I see pieces of memories in his eyes. Pieces of us. They are broken, and scattered, but they are there, gradually coming together again at the sight of me.

A free state is a corporate state.

I lean my head against my knee and close my eyes. Even the illusion of June is enough to send a stabbing pain through my chest. Hell. I miss her so much.

At this moment, all I’m thinking about is what I’d give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair.

Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in...

So, when I thought June might take you away, I didn’t know what to do. I felt like she was taking everything that mattered to me. I felt like she was taking away from you...

The phony surrender’s over; the ceasefire has ended. The final fight for the Republic has begun.

Someone’s going to be very pleased to see you.””I don’t think the Elector will be as excited as you think.””I wasn’t talking about the Elector.”My heart jumps at that.

I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn’t live long. It’s simply not written in my stars.

I’d gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

June,” Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.

What’s the point of keeping in touch with the girl you’re crazy about, when you’re dying?

I ALMOST KISSED THE GIRL LAST NIGHT.