Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

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.

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

Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

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.

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

I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira