“Gingerly, Daniel reached toward the infant. "What if she doesn't like me?""She'll spit acid in your eye and you'll die a horrible death," Kara joked.”
“What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death?”
“There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.”
“Mute, I stumble through the dry, verdigris aqueducts of your eye, thinking this prayer, formic acid, ant spit and sandpaper: blink and I will be expelled, sharpen the edge of the water, subtract me from eternity.”
“Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even understand what kind of place this is.”
“She'll understand what I already know - that death surrounds us all. And it tastes like metal between your teeth.”