Old age is a powerful disguise.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.