“Maybe the new me will be different.”

“Maybe this was meant to happen, this discovery of cracks where now a different, new light can shine through.”

“New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is.”

“If yes is the new no, no is the new maybe, and maybe is the new yes, then my answer is definitely maybe.”

“But the new guy is different, and the Acutes can see it, different from anybody been coming on this ward for the past ten years, different from anybody they ever met outside. He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him.”

“Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?”