You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

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

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.

And I know it - I know it in my heart - Right now - Todd Hewitt - There's nothing we can't do together -

Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

And I look at her sitting there and she looks across the river and we wait as the dawn fully arrives, each of us knowing. Each of us knowing the other.