“Special things have a way of surviving.”

“Surviving is a basic thing. Getting by. Staying alive in whatever way we can. It doesn't mean we make right choices or drive fine cars or have good jobs. It means we found a way not to die. I survived.”

“And if we folks have a motto, it’s this: ‘Don’t holler — smile and bide your time.’ We’ve survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we’ve gotten to be experts at surviving.”

“We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.”

“Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.”

“The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.”