How many mistakes can one life survive?

What are you?" I rasped. It smiled. "Whatever scares you.

...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.

What was it with me and organized beatings, anyway?

No," she said firmly. "I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to make the world in your thoughts a real one that our children can fly in." - Matalina to Jenks