“I could go above ground now and then to gather food and paper, and isn't that enough to live on?”

“I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”

“I could write paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.”

“I will be strong enough to go without the tablet. But there are other things I’m not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. (Cassia Reyes)”

“Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun?”

“I wouldn't take that tablet Cassia. Not for a report. And perhaps not ever. You are strong enough to go without it.”

“You are strong enough to go without.”