Homecoming Quotes
"She’d always imagined grief as a weight—that is, when she’d thought about it at all."
"The only thing reminding her that she was still alive was Luke’s reassuring hand on hers."
"This wasn’t what Earth was supposed to be like. This wasn’t a place worth dying for."
"Humans weren’t scheduled to return to Earth for at least another century."
"She was looking up at the sky—the real sky, on Earth—and she was alive."
"Everything she’d gone through had seemed worth it, though, when Glass, her mother, and Luke had made it onto the dropship."
"The only person who didn’t look panicked was the man sitting immediately to Glass’s right, Vice Chancellor Rhodes."
"The combination of the darkness, the dizziness, the smoke, and the shock of being on Earth seemed to make everything a blur."
"What good were trees or even flowers if Luke wasn’t there to see any of it with her?"
"He deserved better than this. After everything Glass had put him through, was this how it was going to end?"
"The tang of scorched metal burned Glass’s nostrils, while the scent of something else made her gag."
"She was sitting in water—water that stretched out far in front of her across an impossibly vast distance, with only the faintest shadow of trees at its far edge."
"Glass’s eyes fluttered open. She was in a space so large she couldn’t see the walls, and the transparent, star-filled ceiling looked like it was miles away."
"They were packed too tightly, an undulating mass of flesh and quiet tears."
"Better to end it all now than have to wake up every morning and remember that her mother was gone."
"Screw this," Bellamy grumbled to himself, kicking a clump of dirt into the air.
"No one taught Bellamy how to track animals, use a bow and arrow, or skin a two-headed deer."
"This camp was Bellamy’s home. He had helped build it with his bare hands, side by side with the rest of the hundred."
"I wanted to see the fishes," he said, though his lisp made the word sound like fithith.
"That’s really sweet of you, O," Bellamy said.
Okay… be careful." She smiled and turned to Leo. "Let’s go, kiddo.
"Our lives depend on each other," he continued.
"Open your eyes," Bellamy wanted to shout at them.
"I trust that each and every one of you will recognize the greater good and do exactly what is expected of you, for your own personal well-being but also for the continuation of our very race."
"Leave him alone. You shot him—isn’t that enough?"
"There’s no way I’m dressing in leaves, no matter how long we’re alone in the woods."
How could I forget?" He turned to his guests and nodded. "Welcome back.
"Talent is one word for it," Clarke said, reaching her arm forward.
Nice to meet you too, Wells." Sasha’s dad gripped Wells’s hand in a firm shake. "Call me Max.
"In this world, having a sibling didn’t mark your family as deviants."
"I hope I can find it in the dark," Sasha said, running her hand along the trunk of one of the larger trees.
"You make me feel legitimately crazy. You know that, right?" Wells whispered, running his hand down her back.
"It’s like the house held on to their memories long after they were gone."
"We have the whole planet to ourselves, and you want to share the same seat."
I love it," he said with a smile. "Did you make it yourself?
"I don’t know. But she’s not going to stay here and wait around forever."
You’ve made yourself very clear." He turned toward the other Earthborns. "I believe I can speak for everyone here...
It’s a shame, though," Luke murmured. "It would’ve looked beautiful in your hair.
"I love you," she managed to say before her voice cracked.
"There doesn’t seem to be anyone out there to respond."
"You were the strongest, most beautiful girl I’d ever seen. I still can’t figure out what I did to get so lucky."
"You’ll be okay," she said, willing herself to push the panic from her voice.
"We’re not in the business of sending young men to their deaths," Max finished.
Don’t worry," Luke said, wincing with each awkward hop. "It’s not that bad.
"We need to keep her conscious," Wells said, turning to the door.
"Yes, if she could get him to the river… that would work… but how to move him?"
"If someone had told her six months—or even six weeks—ago that she’d be rigging a contraption out of junk she’d found in an abandoned cabin on Earth to carry her mortally wounded boyfriend through the woods, she’d have laughed in their face."
"It’s going to be all right. I’ll figure something out."
"If only he had stopped himself before he set all of this in motion."
"I’m the selfish bastard who leaves a trail of destruction behind him wherever he goes."
"It’s okay, Clarke. We’re here. We’re alive."
"You could start by forgiving yourself. Just a little bit."
"If I’d thrown myself out of that airlock, it would’ve saved everyone a lot of pain and suffering."
"Maybe we should have just died up there, with the rest of the Colony."
"How could Earth just go on existing if Luke were gone? How could she?"
"There was no way in hell I’m letting these people risk their lives for me while I sit around twiddling my thumbs."
"I’m not afraid of Rhodes, or any of them. Just let them try to bring me down again."
"We’re not just fighting to protect these young people who’ve turned to us for help, we’re fighting to protect our way of life."
"I had to let her out of my sight after everything we’d just gone through."
"You know there’s no way in hell I’m staying in here."
"They aided and abetted a fugitive. The punishment for that is perfectly clear in the Gaia Doctrine."
"The Gaia Doctrine has no place on Earth. We need a new system, a better one."
"You saved him, Glass. You should be very proud of what you did for him."
"Things are changing for the better here. Rhodes is loosening his iron fist, finally."
"We're voting a new Advisory Council in tonight."
"It’s gratitude, really, that the sun came up for one more day."
"The connection we feel to other people isn’t bound by geography or space."
"I want to spend eons with you, Clarke Griffin."
"We're here for good. We're finally home."