I love you," I say. I said that once, before I went to Erudite headquarters, but he was asleep then. I don't know why I didn't say it when he could hear it. Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion. Or afraid that I did not know what it was to love someone. But now I think the scary thing was not saying it before it was too late. Not saying it before it was almost too late for me.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

Sometimes pain is for the greater good.

I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.