“A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.”

“I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?”

“The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”

“The lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.”

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”

“To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.”

“You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.”