“...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.”
“I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.”
“If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.”
“You have to stay safe, Scar. Maybe it's your bits in a dress and maybe it's just you, but I'm awful fond of something in there. So don't get killed.”
“They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. They hadn’t anticipated its will to live.”
“Genetic code is a divine writing.”