Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.

Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?