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

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.

TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

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