"I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it into words.  To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers." 
-The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

"I had the strangest feeling - like I had lost something without ever really having it in the first place - that I wasn't what I once was, and wasn't at all what I was meant to be.  The sensation made me feel hollow down to my bones."
-The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

"Witches are just women who are naturally attuned to magic in our world," Nell said.  "They can manipulate it, when others can't even sense its presence." 
-The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding by Alexandra Bracken