You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

And he thinks that if his soul had a form, this is what it would be. A baby sleeping in his arms.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.