We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.