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.

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

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.

When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things.

Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

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