Sanchit

“I didn’t know. I feel sometimes like…there are all these rules. Just to be a person. You know? You’re supposed to carry a shoulder bag, not a backpack. You’re supposed to wear headbands, or you’re not supposed to wear headbands. It’s okay to describe yourself as likeable, but it’s not okay to describe yourself as eloquent. You can sit in the front of the school bus, but you can’t sit in the middle. You’re not supposed to be with a boy, even when he wants you to. I didn’t know that. There are so many rules, and they don’t make any sense, and I just can’t learn them all”
― Leila Sales, This Song Will Save Your Life

“I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now."

"All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
― Anne Brontë

“Yep, she called to me from the parking lot of abandoned cars. The sun was shining though her windows like a beacon of hope."

Chubs groaned. "Why are you so weird?"

"Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds