I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.

I don't like bullies. No one has a right to take or to hurt just because they can.

Sam picks the stone up and clenches his entire body in deep concentration. Nothing happens. " Oh come on," he says to the stone. " I promise to use it for the power of good. No girls' locker rooms, I swear.

One of the gifts our planet gave us is to love completely. Without jealousy or insecurity or fear. Without pettiness. Without anger.

Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

He says we need to live in the real world, where war and death are a reality, not pretend.

That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.