“Will you be all right?" she askedHow could I be?Would you be all right, I felt like screaming, if you'd just watched your family taken away, watched your entire town taken away, to be murdered. I'll never be alright.”

“God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end.”

“Facing this stuff, in real life is not like school, in school, if you make a mistake you can just try again tomorrow, but out there...when your a second away from being murdered or watching a friend die right before your eyes...you don't know what that's like.”

“Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”

“All right, I said murder and I'll say it again as often as I like, so keep your hair on...”

“What about your mum? She got taken away. Mine too, I said. There was nothing special about that. It happened all the time.”