“I didn’t know which was worse: to be killed by some brute animal or be taken off with a wild Neanderthal on horseback.”

“loving someone meant knowing your life will be worse without them in it.”

“-loving someone meant knowing that your life would be worse without them in it.-Caleb (Benny)”

“We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.”

“Sometimes it seems like all the things I need to know, I don’t. And all the things I do know are completely wrong.”

“The plague had killed far more females than males. As one of the few women in The New America, especially an educated, civilized woman, I’d always supposed I was ever man’s type.”

“What if I still want to go?""Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger.”