“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”
“You've been quiet lately...but it's not so much the quiet as something inside the quiet.”
“They were always doing something. Quietly, without interruption, and with great concentration, they carried on with the hundred-and-one small things that made up their world.”
“Prim a doctor. She couldn't even dream of it in 12. Something small and quiet, like a match being struck, lights up the gloom inside me. This is the sort of future a rebellion could bring.”
“Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.”
“When Will truly wants something,” said Jem, quietly, “when he feels something — he can break your heart.”