For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

Then at the top of the hill, the road forks. Which just figures. "You gotta be kidding." I say. One part of the road goes left, the other goes right. (Well, it's a "Fork" ain't it?)

I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

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

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.

Know yourself and go in swinging.