When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.

Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.

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

They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.

Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.