When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.

Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.

It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Revenge is an infection of the spirit.

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.