Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.