“What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?”

“How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.”

“I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...)What do you think, Connor?" asks Hayden. "What hap­pens to your soul when you get unwound?"Who says I even got one?"For the sake of argument, let's say you do."Who says I want an argument?”

“How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various shades of wrong?”

“History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.”

“If love of money is the root of all evil, then having money is the root of all boredom. When you can have everything, you find there's nothing you really want. When you can do anything, you find there's nothing you really care to do. You become lazy. Life feels like a boulder you don't want to lift.”

“He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa”