Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Superior numbers versus superior firepower. A recipe for unending slaughter.

"You can eff off, too," I say, except I don't say eff, I say what 'eff' stands for.

...and I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.