What the hell am I?
The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.
She touched his chin to steady it as she kissed him. Her mouth was warm, and wet with tears. Her teeth scored his bottom lip as she pulled away. Akos didn’t breathe. He wasn’t sure he could remember how.
I paused. I was tempted to call Akos a friend, but it seemed too simple for what he had been to me, too small a word.
Fear Wakes You Up” -Four.
La gente solo quiere ser feliz, aunque la felicidad no sea real.
I deposited Drew at the infirmary a half hour ago.
You know, most boys enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl.
They were both people who carried every scrap of everything around, but maybe they could help each other set things down, piece by piece.
I feel like, the smaller I become, the safer I am.
This is not a crisis, I told myself. You are alive.
Cruel thoughts lead to cruel words, and hurt you as much as they hurt their target.
Vas laughed. “Better listen to her, Kereseth. Those aren’t little heart tattoos she hides under that arm guard.
How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see, before you resign yourself to calling it all ‘ruin’?
Questioning,” Akos said from behind me. “Is that code for ‘interrogation involving torture’?
And maybe that was the entire problem with them – he didn’t see her; he saw who she could be with a few adjustments, and all she wanted was to stay busted and be left alone.
Suddenly he presses a hand to my stomach. His fingers are so long that, though the heel of his hand touches one side of my rib cage, his fingertips still touch the other side. My heart pounds so hard my chest hurts, and I stare at him, wide-eyed. “Never forget to keep tension here,” he says in a quiet voice. Four lifts his hand and keeps walking.
What does it matter what the ‘before’ is, when you’re controlling the ‘after’?
A veces, si quieres la verdad, tienes que exigirla.
I am glad I sleep fully clothed, because Christina stands next to our bunk wearing only a T-shirt, her long legs bare. She folds her arms and stares at Eric. I wish, suddenly, that I could stare so boldly at someone with hardly any clothes on, but I could never do that.