You know what? You didn't do anything wrong. I did. It's this dumb thing I do. I look into things and see more than I'm supposed to.

Someone asked us later, "Didn't you wonder why no one came across you sooner?" Did I wonder? When you see your parents zipped up in black body bags on the Jellicoe Road like they're some kind of garbage, don't you know? Wonder dies.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system, whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.