He's become like that briefcase in the ground-full of gems yet void of light, so nothing sparkles, nothing shines.

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.

I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?" Who says I even got one?" For the sake of argument, let's say you do." Who says I want an argument?

Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

...if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

think of it this way," he said "It took nine months to get you born, so doesn't it figure it would take nine months to get you dead?