“Weird, even for one of us. Or maybe she's worse.""Worse how?""Normal.”

“Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?”

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. ”

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

“Maybe human beings are programmed...to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad...”

“you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally”

“Maybe that was why she was helping Madeleine. She was a manipulative bitch, but Dess couldn't imagine living in any other reality than the one those manipulations had created. In a way, Dess owed the old mindcaster something. Like her life, such as it was.”