“You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.”

“I'm not entirely sure who you are. I mean, you're not really a kid anymore and you're not an adult. ... So, you're going through all these changes, and I don't know who you'll be at the end of it.”

“You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”

“But still we rode; rode that ferry for the lies and the dreams we didn't want to die because we were kids, and kids live on dreams.”

“I know it's impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you're older, you start to see them--the bad kids and the good kids and all kids--as people. They're just people, who deserve to be cared for.”

“Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they came to toppling the government. They didn't want kids to know how much power they really had.”