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

And the pain is too much it's too much it's too much and my hands are on my head and I'm rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness that's inside me. And i fall back into it.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

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.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most