People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

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

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

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.

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.