Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

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.

We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

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.