“The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.”

“The young man who appeared at the mouth of the alley was pale inthe lamplight—paler even than he usually was, which was quite pale indeed.”

“There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge”

“Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.”

“Jem is nothing but goodness. That he struck you last night only shows how capable you are of driving even saints to madness.”

“It sucked to be old enough to want to know what was going on, but so young you were always dismissed.”

“Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”