I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Fear," she says, "is more powerful than pain.

He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.