Mike A. Lancaster

“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious. But once you get into it, once you forget the way you're reading and concentrate on what you're reading, it becomes a really unique experience. You have to work to draw meaning from it rather than having a meaning given to you. It doesn't tell you how to think.”

“There's actually no point in following in another's footsteps TOO exactly, you'll end up leaving no tracks of your own.”

“Superstition requires no tests, no measurements, no proof: just faith.”

“She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.Words gave concepts power. Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.”

“You think that sadness is better than happiness''No. But it is important.”

“Light is supposed to be reasuring. You learn that when you're very young. It defeats the bad things creeping around in your room.Every Parent knows the magic gesture chases the monesters away.”

“But maybe 'coincidence' was a name given to things by people who just haven't spottted a connection yet.”

“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe""I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...”

“Warning:This data storage unit, or "book," has been designed to reprogram the human brain, allowing it to replicate the lost art that was once called reading. It is a simple adjustment and there will be no negative or harmful effects from this process.What you are doing: "Reading" ExplainedEach sheet is indelibly printed with information and the sheets are visually scanned from left to right, and from top to bottom.This scanned information is passed through the visual cortex directly into the brain, where it can then be accessed just like any other data.”

“I think that's what we all want, in the end.To know that we left footprints when we passed by, however briefly.We want to be remembered.So remember us.Please.Remember us.”

“Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.”

“Not if you like lies so much you want to live one”

“How was it even possible to know if your brain was malfunctioning, because the very thing you need to think it all through is the very thing that might be playing up in the first place”

“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids”

“You kids are handling this a whole lot better than he is.’I wondered if that meant we were pretty darned tough.Or whether we simply lacked the imagination to see how bad things really were”

“We simply don’t have enough data to form a conclusion”

“You don’t get involved, you don’t get let down”

“In extraordinary times, the ordinary takes on a glow and wonder all of its own”

“Not everyone has to fly high to prove they exist; some of us are perfectly happy flying low and enjoying the view.”