“It’s one of the reasons I love him.”

“Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't read anymore.”

“It’s us against them, three against countless thousands. But for some reason, and even though it’s absurd, at that moment I feel pretty damn good about our odds.”

“I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him.”

“Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison.”

“My former people were not totally wrong. Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison. And if Alex no longer loves me, I can’t bear to think that he might love somebody else.”

“But from the beginning, I knew that in a world where destiny was dead, I was destined, forever, to love him. Even though he didn't - though he couldn't - ever love me back.”