“Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.”
“What an illusion, she thinks, the idea of an ordered, ordinary life.”
“I imagine that she flushes, seeing him there, for she is at that age when even the most commonplace boys take on a sense of mystery. And this boy is not ordinary. He is wild and he has strange and fanciful perceptions. [p. 153]”
“It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.”
“Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.”
“The idea of committing her body to the hands of a man she trusted was freeing, liberating in a way she couldn't quite explain, even to herself”