If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.

“El que salta puede caer, pero también puede volar.”

“Cuando eres niña solo sueñas con ser mayor, y cuando ya eres mayor te gustaría …”

“Would you like to?” he says. His voice is hardly audible above the wind—so low …”

“And in that moment, the wordless thing passed between us, the thing that wasn't…”