“And they don't know anything else They don't know they're breathing bad air. But I'm tired of living like this And my soul cries out, 'If You're there..”

“Ember, you're the only piece of me I have left. Everything else-my family, my home, my soul- they're all gone. I don't know who the hell I am anymore. If it weren't for you... I don't know.”

“You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look. Don't cry. You're not that girl either.' 'Oh yeah? What girl am I?''I'll let you know when I figure it out. Just don't cry.”

“I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.”

“People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.”

“...living here, you don't know anything about white people. Where I'm from, everything is mixed. In Atlanta, at least out here where we stay at, everything is so black that y'all don't know what it feels like to be black.”