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.

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.