And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

Do you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other.

She was a soldier, not some girl twisting her skirts at a village dance.

I kissed him once," she whispered."Well done. What did he do?""Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.

Jen's an impact player, a spoiled brat, a royal pain-in-the-ass, and she rewires me like nothing else.

We don't always get to choose what we love.