“My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.”

“My breathing is controlled, but all the fear and anger within me. Fear is too simple a word. Terror. That's what I feel.”

“A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture.”

“So I'm guessing you're Seven and Ten; What can you do?" I say as I find our rifles in the sand and hand each of them a gun."You can call me Marina," the girl with the brown hair says. "And I can breathe under water and see in the dark and heal the sick and wounded. And I have telekinesis."Call me Ella, I hear ten say in my head. Aside from my telepathy, I can change ages."Awesome. I'm four, that nut job with the long black hair is nine and the beast is my chimaera, Bernie Kosar.”

“Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.”

“The key to change is letting go of the fear.”

“I work my hardest and she still kicks the crap out of me.”