A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

For me, the teen years were all about searching for a place for myself, wondering why I seemed so different than everyone else, wondering especially why no one could look past the surface and figure out who I really was underneath.

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.

But things don't just fall apart. People break them.