“To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle”

“Mistress Coyle agreed, and Simone set to work, planning the whole thing with the absolute focus on capturing aSpackle and sending it back with a message of peace.Which seems strange after we’ve killed so many of them to do it, but it’s been obvious since the beginning that wars makeno sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them.”

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

“Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?”

“There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"”

“If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.”

“His noise is getting quieter, but I can still see it there still-See how he feels the skin of my hand against his, see how he wants to take it and press it against his mouth, how he wants to breathe in the smell of me and how beautiful I look to him, how strong after all that illness, and how he wants to just lightly touch my neck, just there, and how he wants to take me in his arms and-"Oh, God," he says, looking away suddenly. "Viola, I'm sorry, I didn't mean-"But I just put my hand to the back of his neck-And he says, "Viola-?"And I pull myself towards him-And I kiss him.And it feels like, finally.”