“It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one...”

“The first one is always the hardest," he said."The first?""The first one you love who dies," he said. "It gets easier, after.”

“One must look at the next step on the path ahead, rather than the mountain in the distance, or one would never reach one's goal.”

“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable," he said. "Sometimes one cannot be both.”

“I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.”

“I am not the one of us who has no heart.”

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”