“You kids are handling this a whole lot better than he is.’I wondered if that meant we were pretty darned tough.Or whether we simply lacked the imagination to see how bad things really were”

“Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.”

“We simply don’t have enough data to form a conclusion”

“Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids”

“You think that sadness is better than happiness''No. But it is important.”

“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious. But once you get into it, once you forget the way you're reading and concentrate on what you're reading, it becomes a really unique experience. You have to work to draw meaning from it rather than having a meaning given to you. It doesn't tell you how to think.”

“She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.Words gave concepts power. Once they were released, there was no choice but to understand them, no matter how painful they might be.”