Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

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

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

We are the choices we make.

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

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

War makes monsters out of men.