The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.

Love's not the point. We just do what we always do, and we get by.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.

I'm not scared anymore, I just ... I don't know. I think it's because I saw someone else, someone behind your face, like you'd taken off a mask. It was still you, but it wasn't. And I don't think that person is going to hurt me, or Marci, or anybody else, but ... I guess the thing is that I don't know anything about that person. At all. And that's what scares me more than anything - that there could be two people, so different, and one of them so secret.