summer leisure activities
"I'm going to be the first one to the top of this hill." 95 -competition
"Nothing I have ever written or done has made any difference in this world" 96-97
"I hear the sharp snap of a stick near me." 97 -Ky sees her reading the note
"There's a reason they didn't keep this poem. This poem tells you to fight." 98
"I was predicted to finish second." 98
"Were there things he had to run from?" 99
"Eighty is... harder to achieve." 101 -Ky about the province he is from
"the air trains are always on time." 103 -perfect society
Cassia's curiosity about Ky 104
"They can't bring him back without a sample." 108 -Cassia's father 'lost' their tissue sample of their grandfather
"There's no way to get another sample. It's gone. He's gone. Grandfather is really gone." 111
"I'm afraid they haven't sent any extra portions." 111
"The food here is getting cold, possibly losing nutrients." 112
did Ky bring anything with him? 113
"This is as close to perfect as any society has ever managed to get." 114
tablets 117
"You can take it up to once a week without the officials taking special note of it." 117
"You are strong enough to go without it." 119 -her grandfather knows that the society underestimates their strength and tries to control
"this might be part of the reason I am going to see my father today ... to ride on this train with Ky." 124
"Long ago there were genetic mutations, like albinos, but those don't exist anymore." 134
"His face keeps appearing in my mind, but I know that it's not the society's mistake anymore. It's mine. I'm the one who keeps thinking of him when I should be thinking of Xander." 134-135 Cassia is in love with Ky
"I didn't lose it. ... I destroyed it. That day. He made me promise that I would. He wanted to die on his own terms." "He didn't want them to be able to bring him back. He wanted to choose what happened to him." 137
"Whatever I've been feeling for Ky must stop." 138
"Our meals have our specialized vitamins and enrichments and have ta be given to the right person." 145
"Aberrations aren't allowed to carry tablets of their own." 151
"the datatags they've attached to me might tell a different story, thanks to my racing pulse." 154
"She wanted to see the city as soon as possible." 160 -the only way for someone to see another city or move is if their match lives somewhere else
People in the new society do not know how to hand write, neither are they allowed to. Pens and pencils do not exist. 170
two lives 177
"I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold on to something." 179 -fear of the officials
"I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions." 185




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