I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53

To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it so badly? Who am I to stop the end of the world if it keeps on coming?

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

And it feels like, finally.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.