“Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us.”

“If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.”

“The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.”

“We share a common enemy, but does that make us friends?”

“Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.”

“Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.”

“What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed."Honestly?""Does now seem like the time for honesty?"I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.”