“Journalism must have been very different before people resolved so many of their conflicts with bullets.”

“We have speed, and we have bullets. Everything else about this fight is in their favor.”

“[M]y Coke hit the floor with a metallic clink, so much like the sound of a bullet casing being dropped.”

“I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.”

“It's amazing how many of the things needed for a basic biology lab are capable of blowing up, if you're willing to try very, very hard, and don't much care about possibly losing a few fingers in the process.”

“People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it.”

“The only question is whether they're going to get caught, and so far, the answer's been 'no.' Things are chaotic. No one knows exactly what's going on, and the people carrying out the orders aren't the ones giving them. As long as no one ever gives the order that says 'let those people die, they don't matter,' nothing illegal is being done.”