1. “And you, Tommy” the boy said, lowering his voice. “You’ve got a lot of nerve coming here and asking me to leave with you. A lot of bloody nerve. The sight of you makes me sick”
2. “A word with obvious menace, yet an entity they were told was good?”
3. “I can’t do that,” Minho said.”
4. “After hours of work, they finally found an address through someone Jorge called “a friend of a friend of an enemy’s enemy.” By that time it was late and they all crashed for the night;”
5. “Almost everyone he saw looked uneasy. They all seemed to be avoiding each other—and not just to be polite. They seemed to take obvious measures to stay clear of anyone else. Just like back at the mall, many of them wore masks or held rags that covered their mouth and nose as they walked.”
6. “Do people still function—live their lives, go to work, whatever—when they’re drugged out?” “They do what they need to do, but they’re much more … relaxed about it. You could be a fireman rescuing thirty children from an inferno, but you won’t stress if you happen to drop a few of them into the flames along the way.”
7. “her words were lost. The Griever had sucked her face into its blubbery skin and was pulling her farther and farther in, suffocating her.”
8. “I don’t know how history will judge the actions of WICKED, but I state here for the record that the organization only ever had one goal, and that was to preserve the human race. And in this last act, we have done just that. As we tried to instill in each of our subjects over and over, WICKED is good.”
9. “After washing himself from top to bottom at least five times, he felt reborn.”
10. “But the well-intended idea had gone very bad. Filling a place with people who had no hope and knew they were about to descend into a rotten, horrific spiral of insanity ended up creating some of the most wretched anarchic zones ever known to man. With the residents well aware that there could be no real punishment or consequences worse than what they already faced, crime rates grew astronomically. And so the developments became havens of debauchery.”
11. “And we want to make sure that something is done to salvage what’s left of this beautiful race called humans.”
12. “He looked down, saw that his hands and legs were shaking, and he suddenly felt freezing cold. “What have I done?” he mumbled, but the others didn’t say a word.”
13. “He felt another tremor of emotion as he saw the faces of Chuck and Newt and Teresa in his mind’s eye. A”
14. “I’m so sorry,” he whispered to her, knowing she couldn’t hear. “I’m so sorry.”
Her mouth moved, working to speak, and he leaned in to make out what she was trying to say.
“Me…too,” she whispered. “i only ever… cared for…”
And then Thomas was being dragged away from her. He didn’t have the energy or will to fight it. She was gone.”
15. “He’d kill Newt. He’d shot his own friend in the head.”
16. “Awww,” Minho said. “That’s almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.”
17. “He’d escaped WICKED only to be held at gunpoint by an average everyday”
18. “As he watched their nemesis twitch, he was almost ashamed for feeling no guilt. Almost.”
19. “All right, then,” the man said. “Follow me. And remember, if any of your body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a Crank, I highly advise you to leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless it’s a leg, of course.”
20. “Eat. Sleep. Exercise. Thirst for revenge. That was what he did for three more days. Alone. On the twenty-sixth day, the door opened.”
21. “And after that the dream faded,”
22. “And then Thomas was being dragged to his feet, yanked away from her. He didn’t have the energy or will to fight it. She was gone.”
23. “Even more reason to do what the note says,” Thomas said. Brenda’s face showed doubt. “I really think we should”
24. “I agree!” Aris shouted, much louder than seemed necessary.”
25. “And the cure for the Flare’s gonna fly out of your butt any second.”
26. “We can’t try to outguess them anymore. Sometimes they do things just to make me do the opposite of what they think I think they think I want to do.”
“Huh?” the three of them asked at the same time, confusion transforming their faces.”
27. “I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”
28. “And because of that there will be a cure. Eventually. For everyone.”
29. “As we tried to instill in each of our subjects over and over, WICKED is good.”
30. “Glad you came,” Gally said in his raspy voice. “Because the end of the world is upon us.”
