“No one should die alone.”

“The Society wants us to be afraid of dying. But I'm not. I'm only afraid of dying wrong.”

“I should be with Ky in the infirmary. i should be with Xander in prinson. I should be sorting for a cure. can only try to do all three and hope these pieces of myself are enough to find something that can make me whole”

“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”

“Then, quick, he flips the fish out onto the bank. It flops and gasps for air, its body slick.We all watch the fish die.”

“It's good to know that Xander's here. So that when I go down, she won't be alone. "You walked through the Carving to find me," I tell Cassia softly. "I'm going to walk through this to reach you.”

“She is holding on tight to this talk of flowers, as I did before, when I was afraid and alone. If you sing and speak of blooms and petals that come back after a long time of being winter-still, you don’t have to think about things that don’t.”