Are you ever not a pessimist?" "Sometimes. But then I wake up.

Post-traumatic shock,' said Shaun. 'He thinks he's a boa constrictor.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can manage? That’s your bright, bold lie?” “Look, lady, I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had somebody corner me on a dark street and try to hand me a frying pan before,” I snapped.

The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment.

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought you were going to get us both expelled. You said the only way things could've gotten as bad as they did was if people were willing to take the first easy answer they could find and cling to it, rather than doing anything as complicated as actually thinking.