The Lost Quotes
"If people are going to take off from here, they tend to do it when they’re eighteen. The number of younger runaways is multiplying. Don’t you think something is very wrong with that?"
"Well, nothing. Maybe we won’t find anything, or maybe we’ll discover where these people have run away to."
"I’m not judging you, but who runs away without telling a single person where they’re going? Or at least leaving a hint?"
"I do believe something more is going on than teens skipping town, but I don’t think we’re going to find ourselves in the middle of some crime drama."
"We have each other. You are not giving up. Promise me."
"Control. Fear. We’re pawns in a sick game to them."
"I don’t want to share a bedroom. I don’t want to share a bathroom. I don’t want to go into those stupid rooms or cook in—"
"We’ll stick together and figure out how to keep fighting."
"You’re strapped to a bed, and they place a cloth over your face…"
"They’re not going to make a mistake and risk being found."
"I’ve always been curious about people who turn to crime."
"You’re doing so well, but remember, if you need to talk or cry or shout, that’s okay, too."
"We have to get out of here. There has to be a way."
"I can handle pain, I think, but my body is my own."
"What happens out of this room is out there. In here, I'm with friends and I'm safe."
"I'm not saying you have. Doesn't sound like that to me. Even though you just claimed you understand."
"We're trying to give us all the chance to leave here alive. Isn't that what you want?"
"Logic. It's clear for anyone who gives it more than a nanosecond of thought."
"No one wants to get in there! Suck it up, Hazel."
"You can't force me to do something I don't want to do, Theo!"
"They're trying to take on the role of leaders, being the strong ones with all the ideas, making choices they have no right making!"
"Let's not try to think like them; we're nothing like Caleb, Matt, and Owen."
"I can’t," I say, looking up at the camera. That’s what they’re waiting for. If they wanted us to watch, they could turn it back on themselves. They want me to do it. Do they have no empathy at all? Is there nothing human about any of them?
"Just do it, Piper. No-watching pact is over! I would rather be watched than forced to kill or be killed."
"My heart rate rockets to the point where it’s all I can hear, and I’m sure the others must be able to as well."
"You can get through it. Soon it will be over."
"This is the one I feared most, and it’s finally happening. It’s happening just hours after room one."
"I can’t control what he does to me, but I can control how I react to that."
"I don’t want to play his game. I want to scream and fight, but I have no choice."
"Your assurances mean very little, Caleb, but thanks for clearing that up."
"Let’s get on with this. You’re boring me now."
"The sooner it starts, the sooner it’s over. Like going to sleep early on Christmas Eve. Except when I wake up tomorrow, I’ll still be in hell."
"I’m not at all convinced that Lucie, even knowing what they want, wouldn’t run anyway."
"She said she would rather die trying. But she wouldn’t even be trying because there is no hope."
"So I won’t cry. Not one more tear will be shed from me inside these walls."
"We have to be united against these rich psychos."
"I knew you were going to be feisty. That’s what attracted me to you when I saw you walking by the lake. Your lips were pursed, and you weren’t paying much attention to your surroundings. You weren’t looking because you didn’t think there was any danger."
"Life is a game; you just have to make sure you’re in control."
"I admire your ability to sleep at night after everything you’ve done and continue to do."
"He’s stronger than anyone. Caleb, Owen, and Matt know that, which is why they kept him in those rooms for months, Piper."
"The deepest scars are the ones you can’t see."
"You can change the world, Piper, or take it over."
"Ultimately, that’s all that matters." Being here makes me realize that I haven’t appreciated my parents enough.
"Valentine’s Day. Ugh. Of all the holidays, this one is my least favorite."
"Fourteen days until all of social media is swarmed with cutesy couple photos and declarations of love, and I’m already living in an explosion of pink and red do-it-yourself crafts."
"You’re right. That was mean. Char, I’m sorry."