This is how Aberrations end.
-- Ky (Chapter 1 paragraph 14)

Importance: This quote expresses the attitude of the Society against those who have been reclassified as Aberrations. They will not even bury them at times when it is more convenient to throw them into a river.

Ky is gone.
-- Cassia (Chapter 2 paragraph 4)

Importance: This quote expresses all of Cassia’s feelings and motivations as the novel begins. Cassia is on a mission to find and be reunited with Ky.

I don’t see how there can be more than this. How anything from these bodies can last when they die so easily and decay so fast.
-- Ky (Chapter 5 paragraph 3)

Importance: This quote shows the desperation in Ky’s life, especially when he is surrounded by so much needless death.

She is going to survive.
-- Cassia (Chapter 10 paragraph 11)

Importance: This is Cassia’s assessment of Indie the moment they step off the air ship in the Outer Provinces.

And even if we did, I don’t believe the Pilot...
-- Ky (Chapter 15 paragraph 24)