Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

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.

I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to his face like he wants to breathe me in.

We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.

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

A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.