“He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said.Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.”

“Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.”

“Trust in tomorrow...Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow.—Alex Morales to Miranda Evans”

“So what if I don't learn algebra?''Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.''That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.''I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said.”

“...when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table...Then I asked her what had happened.'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man...I started thinking about...if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me.''I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.”

“What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?''To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.”

“Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.”