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

That’s one way of looking at it. I prefer to look at it another way—which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love... That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own.

We could visit him," suggests Will. "But what would we say? 'I didn't know you that well, but I'm sorry you got stabbed in the eye'?