If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained.

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

It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers.

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile.

Fear is about things that you can't control. The future or the dark, or someone trying to kill you. You don't get scared of yourself because you always know what you're going to do.

It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's how every Partial is wired - to follow orders and trust in our leaders - but it's not enough. It never has been. We've followed our leaders, and sometimes they win and sometimes they lose; we do what they say and we play our part. But this is our decision. Our mission. And when we're done, it will be our victory, or our defeat. I don't want to fail, but if I do, I want to be able to look back and say, 'I did that. I failed. That was all me.

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.