Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)

by Alexandra Bracken

Blue eyes squinted at me under a scraggly mop of blond hair, but I couldn’t do anything, say anything, not when he leaned farther into the pale yellow streetlight.

You're kidding me.

“My, my.” A feral grin spread across Cole’s face. “Little brother must be a good kisser.”

OH NAH

“Hi, friends,” she said sweetly. “Miss me?”

WHAT

“They…put trackers in our clothes?”

Oh Jude you stupid precious child

“Oh, for the love of…” Chubs shook his head and sighed, but I heard the affection in his voice all the same. “It’s just me, you dumbass.”

OH THANK GOD

but not far enough to hide the blue-white glow of the device in her hands that cut through the darkness.

VIDA NO

“In order to establish yourself, you have to turn in a kid. There’s no other way to put your name in the rankings. You can’t cheat the system. Believe me. I tried.”

So what if I screamed

“The guys b-brought them to the Slip Kid.”

Say sike right fucking now

And there was Liam, right in the center of them all.

NOOO MY BOY

“Ruby,” Olivia called. Her voice was clear, each word cut from stone. “Ruin him.”

ITS GONNA GO DOWN FELLAS

I was in his head without a single touch.

go ruby go

“Stop it!” he shouted. “Goddammit, stop it!”

I giggled at this one

“Oh, I’m sorry,” Chubs said, “apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.”

Stealing this immediately

“I love you.” He turned toward me, that agonized expression still on his face. “I love you every second of every day, and I don’t understand why, or how to make it stop—”

THE AMNESIA TROPE AAAAAAAAA

It won’t go. I can’t make it fade.

Title drop?

“We—That safe house—” Oh my God.

NAH.

AFTER A WHILE CROCODILE

That's not how that goes!

but at nearly twenty dollars for a gallon,

ah yes the current economic state of this country

And the only soul alive in that dining room aside from us wasn’t Cate.

CALLED IT

Clancy howled in pain, dropping onto his knees. His left hand clutched the place where the bullet had clipped his right forearm.

lmao get got stupid

Jude, who hated silence, whose past slithered up to him like a shadow along glass, did not say a single word.

nooo not my little sunshine boy

“Give ’em hell, darlin’.” “And for the love of God, bitch, don’t get stabbed this time!”

Real and true

I thought, at first, he’d struck a match, but the fire at his fingertips bloomed, swallowing his hand, devouring the arm he sent flying toward Jarvin’s face.

COLE HELLO????

as he swung the small gun up from his sweatshirt’s pockets and calmly fired two shots into the president’s chest.

merry christmas lmao

It was someone’s finger, and it wasn’t attached to his body.

delucious

And the last place I would ever leave Jude was alone in the dark.

This line just ripped my heart out of my chest and put it in a meat grinder

As he was wearing a Kevlar vest during the attack,

GOD DAMMIT

“You think your father arranged a hit on himself?”

Of course he would

“You mean this research?”

FUCK YEA RUBY