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

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

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

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.

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.