“That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.”

“Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true”

“We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?""I hope not," I say”

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”

“Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.”

“If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean”

“I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?”