The only crime, the only crime is to take a life. There is nothing else.' 'And that's why you don't fight,'I say. She turns to me sharply. 'To preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

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 otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.