What's the point of living if you're going to hate the world? Guard your heart if you have to, but don't shut it away.

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?

Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the world is coming, good deeds could earn you Judgment day brownie points.

Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.