Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don't.

Manhattan was a no-man's land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something happened to you out here, either side could get you, and neither side could protect you.

I guess all we have left are awesome dreams.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

I cursed him then, not because his tears were fake, but because they were real. I cursed him for showing me, with every tear and every smile and every sincere emotion he had, that I was the real freak.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.