“I have no idea where they’re go­ing with this.”

“I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are bet­ter things than free­dom. There are worse things than liv­ing a long bored life in some stranger’s house and then dy­ing and go­ing to ca­nary heav­en.”

“I told him to buy land, my mum says, they’re not making it anymore.”

“When you’re twenty-four,” Marla says, “you have no idea how far you can really fall, but I was a fast learner.”

“We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.”

“It was just one more pre­dictable mass sui­cide in a world filled with splin­ter groups that limp along un­til they’re con­front­ed.”

“and i can't stand the idea of being alone.i can't bear the thought of being free.”