Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds Quotes

A moment later, Liam's bright blue eyes opened, and he was seeing me. He just wasn't seeing Ruby.

But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

Let's carpe the hell out of this diem.

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.

But part of surviving is being able to move on.

I knew I wasn't making sence, but I couldn't seem to connect my thoughts to my tongue. That feeling... How did you tell someone that?

My mom said once that education was a privilege not afforded to everyone, but she was wrong--it wasn't a privilege. It was our right. We had the right to a future.

This time should have been no different. But it was.

I didn't have time for tears anymore. I had questions.

When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.

Nope, " he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

If I wasn't the same person I had been six years ago, how could I expect her to be?

Hours of being asked:"Do you understand?" But for all of her answers, she never got around the one question I had wanted to ask."What does it feel like?

My mom used to say that sometimes just saying something aloud was enought to make it true. I wasn't so sure about that.

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..

I had the strangest feeling-like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place-that i wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.

You'd be surprised how little voice you have when you lose everything.

What was the point of being holed up with someone who didn't believe in me when I had people out there who did?

Oh my God, Green, ” I heard Chubs say from somewhere in the room. “Just take the damn socksand put the kid out of his misery.

When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.

—I don't want to lose you—Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?