“We all eat a handful of dirt before we die, who cares if it tastes like cherries?”

“What if there is no dirt on Merjack?Oh, I can answer this one. (Omari raised his hand like he was in a classroom, then dropped it to his side.) We all die. (Omari)I just love teenage angst. By the way, chip, there are worse things in life than dying. (Nero)Like what? (Omari)Living as a slave. (Alix)”

“Is dirt nice? Is death nice? Above all is dying nice? And, in the end, we must ask, is God nice? I doubt it.”

“Live is like a box of chocolates, we are all just waiting for a hungry hand to come down and grab us and eat us!!!!”

“We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.”

“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.”