That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity

...the first sign of civilization is always trash.

My grandmother used to say that twisting paths always cross again," he told her. "And whose paths are more twisted than ours?

Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.