Maren

“Hi darlin', missed you something fierce.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“When the deaths finally came to light, my elementary school put a strict ban on teachers and staff talking to us about what was then called Everheart's disease, after Micheal Everheart, the first know kid to have died of it. Soon, someone somewhere decided to give it a proper name: Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration-- IAAN for short. And then it wasn't just Micheal's disease. It was all of ours.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it out into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Who sent you?” O’Ryan asked. “What was your purpose here?”

“To...to tell you...” The words didn’t sound nearly as furious coming out of my mouth as they did in my head. The camp controller leaned forward, eyes narrowing into slits. “To go...fuck yourself.”
― Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight