“Lily kept her smile. She knew a little something about loss and what it was all about in the end. She searched for her answers in those items left behind.”

“Silena BeauregardShe betrayed them all, thats what it seemedBut she never knew she was.Luke made a promise, that she was saving livesShe never knew that she wasn't saving,But killingSome knew, that something was about to happenA trick that ends in deathSome may have thought: Foolish Aphrodite girl. But,In the end she died braveIn the end she showed her treachourous secretIn the end she saw CharlieIn the end she was a hero”

“She couldn't remember what they had talked about, only that she had looked at her rapt from a place just behind her eyes, a place full of jumbled thoughts that she had kept to herself even then.”

“Hazel should have done something—left a note, pretended she was going to go visit Jack’s aunt Bernice. Something. She was so busy thinking about the one she needed to rescue she didn’t think at all about the one she was leaving behind. She was supposed to take care of her mother, too. She was not supposed to be sipping honey tea with people who are just like the parents you think you are supposed to have. Her mother was what she had.”

“The little bitch. She didn't have her files in another computer. She kept everything she knew inside her head.”

“Emma has noticed that about Lily. Even hearing Duncan's name makes her giddy. Her plain clothes and slouched shoulders seem to disappear, and she smiles.”