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

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.