“Please," he added. "I meant to say, please. I've thought it all through. I've thought of nothing else. I haven't read a book in weeks!”

“I've been in the world three weeks and a half, I still never know what's going to hurt.”

“No point my telling you he's not worth it, I suppose. . . I've seen enough men in my time. Whoever he is, he's not worth what you'll pay.”

“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

“For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather.”

“When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything”

“When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I’m in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn’t real at all.”