The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)

by Patrick Ness

Not one of them lifting a hand to save theirselves from what’s coming, hoping if they’re meek enough, if they’re weak enough, then the monster won’t eat ’em.

Then the Mayor let some of the women who remained in prison out, some of ’em even back with their families and not even in dormitories. He upped everyone’s food rashuns, too. And he started holding these rallies. Explaining things.

Better the devil you know. I wonder why the only choice is twixt two devils, tho.

It’s not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.