She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

Sometimes you don't know what you need until it's gone

The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.