“I walk among my enemies. But I carry my friends with me.”

“I bared my teeth at him. “There will come a day when a thousand Illegals descend on your detention centres. Boomers will breach the walls. Skychangers will send lightning to strike you all down from above, and Rumblers will open the earth to swallow you up from below. There will be nowhere to hide, nowhere to run, and no way to stop them from freeing every single Illegal in this centre. And when that day comes, Justin Connor, think of me.”

“You can't transform a society for the better with violence, Ashala. Only with ideas.”

“Death is a great transformation. But it is not an end.”

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights! ”

“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”

“I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!”