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

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

“You can love anyone. Love is just caring about someone very deeply. Feeling like thatperson matters to you, like your whole world would be sadder without them in it.”

“I’d stare up at the sky, reminding myself that Caleb and I were both underneath it. That wherever he was, whatever he was doing, we would always share something.”

“What If I still want to go?" "Then you'll go," he said. "But I wanted you to know the danger." "There's always danger." His green eyes met mine. I was starting to see It, how It could happen-Caleb and me.”

“I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.”

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