The Unwanteds Quotes
"For a Purge was neither exciting nor boring; it just was, as many things just were in Quill."
"He made his eyes icy cool before he glanced over his shoulder at his parents, who remained unemotional."
"She afforded a small smile, picked a flower, and handed it to Meghan. She hesitated and then took it, and in her hand it turned into a small silver music box."
"Mr. Today smiled, but there was a hint of sorrow in his eyes."
"It was almost as if her room became the lounge."
"The lounge was enormous—three times the size of the kitchen."
"If discovered, this place, and everyone in it, will be destroyed."
"The realm of possibility here in Artimé is only limited by our imaginations."
"Wouldn't you be blunt too, if you had to live in a perpetual party room?"
"Indeed. All right, here he comes. Enjoy your reunion."
"His face lit up. He walked swiftly toward his sister, picked her up, and whirled her around."
"But better to get stronger than to disappear into the Great Lake of Boiling Oil, I always say."
"I'm wondering if you could, you know, gently—I mean, nice and gently if you would—summon Lani to come down here?"
"Because I was influencing other children. Telling the stories in my head."
"You've certainly landed on both feet already."
"The lounge isn't attached to the mansion. It's not actually a physical building."
"Because this will feel like another failure to your friends."
"I might punch you again, and then we'd be right back in this stupid mess."
"You shush me for weeks, ignore my messages to you, and now that you’ve likely messed everything up, you ask for help."
"When the governors come, Alex, I use a very complex spell that hides Artimé, so that this place looks just like it did when you first arrived."
"I wish I could have convinced Justine to eliminate both twins, but she wouldn’t have it."
"Be assured, my dear citizens, that it takes more than strength and intelligence to win a battle—it takes creativity and skill and common sense."
"I’m stuck here. The clips have secured me to this wall through my clothing."
"Because we don’t punish bad ideas, or thoughts, or intentions. Because the moment we do, that’s the moment our world takes its first step toward becoming like Quill."
"If our people have nothing to sacrifice, nothing to protect, what will happen to Artimé when I am gone?"
"It’s sort of musical. Like a new kind of instrument."
"I love the sound of the sea in the dark, when all the other creatures are quiet, don’t you?"
"One day we'll go for a cruise, maybe to one of the neighboring islands with whom we used to trade goods. I've been wanting to go back for years."
"You would have done anything for him. That's the way it is with twins, isn't it?"
"Everything's really going great. I like it here."
"I'm not a dream. And I am happy, for the first time in my life."
"Happy causes infractions. I want to be intelligent and strong."
"Don’t worry," Sean said. "There’s nothing they can do to him. He could kill them all in an instant."
"Hideous view, isn’t it?" Mr. Today said when they had all come to order.
"Friends. Hear me out, won’t you?" He paused, gathered his words, and went on.
"I’d rather die fighting to keep us free to do as we wish, fighting to be free to come and go as we please, fighting so we no longer need to hide."
"What? You’ve been tricking us all these years? Oh, that’s all right," and leave us be?"
"Do not strike first. If there is to be a battle, let it be they who start it."
"Dreams," she muttered. "Grounds for dismissal and death."
"Don’t—kill—him—," Alex managed to rasp before he lost consciousness.
"The last thing to disappear was the gleam in her eye."
"And seeing his father again—once his hero—so willing to kill his own son … how could Samheed have ever wanted to go back there?"
"She disarmed the gun and slid it into her vest, realizing that despite her knowledge of its workings, and all her father had taught her, perhaps even in preparation for this day, she could never, ever use it."
"No one could see the invisible Lani, nor could they hear her whisper 'Evermore, nevermore,' an irrevocable spell that she had delighted in finding in her studies."
"As this is quite an unfathomable place for many of the residents of Quill, I ask that you treat our visitors with the same respect you give me."
"Even more, he thought, catching Alex’s eye, still carry invisible wounds that no magical spell can take away."
"Wear your Unwanted title like a badge of honor, for we have prevailed!"
"But for a fourteen-year-old boy, resting on the lawn in the warm sunshine, the sea gently lapping at the shore, his friends all around … He sighed. At least for now, things were good."
"It was more than any Unwanted could ever hope for."