I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.

Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice" "No matter why you're here, no matter why any of us are here, you're never tied down to fate. You're never locked in. You make your own choices, Kira, and you can't let anyone ever take that away from you.

This is life...Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak--the ones too small or too foolish to fight back--die in agony and blood.

You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.

Even a paranoid clock is being followed twice a day.

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.

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