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.

[…] Tess and I are a good match. She understands intimately where I came from. She can cheer me up on my darkest days. It’s as if she came perfectly happy home instead of what...

It’s strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But…sometimes it feels like we’re the same person born into two different worlds.

I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and...

June will break your heart. I can see it already. She’ll shatter you into a million pieces.

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

Without his father’s shadow in a way, he’s beautiful.

What a joke! Poor little rich girl’s fallen in love with the Republic’s most famous criminal.

The Republic is weak and broken.” I narrow my eyes. “But it is still your country. Fight for it. This is your home, not theirs.

The king is dead. Long live the queen.

Can one mistake really destroy a lifetime together?

The boy who walks in the light

He is beauty, inside and out.He is the silver lining in a world of darkness.He is my light.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons.

I love you,” I whisper over and over again. “Don’t go,” I close my eyes. My tears fall on his cheeks.

He looks like an angel, if a broken one.

June laughs. “I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I’ve heard a lot about you.””I hear about you a lot too,” Eden replies in a rush, “mostly from Daniel. He...