That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

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.

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.