How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Saving the compact would be selfish. It would only save a thing. Saving Ky's artifact saves […] him from becoming an anomaly. (18.27)
Until Ky, Cassia always chose the selfish, safe option—self-preservation was always a priority for her. But when it comes to Ky, she chooses to look out for his best interests instead of her own.
Quote #5
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance. […] What would it be like […] to know that you could never choose anything else? (21.75)
Despite the lack of choices in Cassia's life, she's grateful for her relatively high position in Society and few choices she has. What would it be like to have such a low status that you have no choice in anything that happens to you?
Quote #6
"I think people should be able to choose who they Match with," I say lamely.
"Where would it end, Cassia?" she says, her voice patient. "Would you say next that people should be able to choose how many children they have, and where they want to live? Or when they want to die?" (22.40-41)
Cassia's Official suggests that choices that are pretty normal to all of us are totally crazypants in the Society. The way she says it, the idea of being able to choose any of these things seems as ridiculous to them as being able to choose our own birth parents seems to us.