The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?" Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. "I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.

I'm tired of eating your family's lousy, tasteless recipes," Dad said. "Tasteless recipes? My grandmother's rolling in her grave!" "It's from indigestion.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile.

You think you want to know the secrets of the universe. You think you want to see the way things all fit together. You believe in your heart of hearts that enlightenment will save the world and set you free. Maybe it will. But the path to enlightenment is rarely a pleasant one.

Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem