Never Fade (The Darkest Minds, #2)

by Alexandra Bracken

Ghosts don’t haunt people—their memories do.

You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.”

I had already swallowed the day’s poison down, letting it mix with the smoke and bile.