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

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.

Beautiful is dangerous.

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.

How many kids are in the Graveyard?" "A bunch." "Who sends your supplies?" "George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget." "How often do you receive new arrivals?" "About as often as you beat your wife.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

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