“And we are so fragile,and our cracking nones make noise, and we are just breakable, breable, breakable girls”

“Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts.So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess,And to stop the muscle that makes us confess”

“I never though I could love anyone but myselfNow I know I can't love anyone but youYou make me think that maybe I won't die alone”

“In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.—Momma”

“It was a grave tactical error that Astrid had been so focused on collecting boys, when the girls in this town were more than twice as worthy.”

“He had to be okay. We had no choice.”

“An idea can destroy the mind of a human being, twist it into a dark path of destruction and illness. But only the human can destroy the mind with a bullet to the soul. Ideas do not kill people; they ruin them. People kill people.”