“I want to see a world where people are in chains and you can ride them like ponies.”

“Vampire Willow Rosenberg: "In my world, we have people in chains, and we can ride them like ponies.”

“I like to read them and write them," I say shyly. Hello, my name is Sparrow and I am a nerd.”

“You may have to break this heart before you can use it. You may have to take it apart and start all over with me. I know it hurts to change, but I don't want to stay the same. Take me. Break me. Do whatever it takes to make me what you need me to be”

“What naive garbage. People don't want freedom anymore--even those to whom freedom is a kind of religion are afraid of it, like trembling acolytes who make sacrifices to some pagan god. People want their governments to keep secrets from them. They want the hand of law to be brutal. They are so terrified by their own power that they will vote to have it taken out of their hands. Look at America. Look at the sharia states. Freedom is a dead philosophy, Alif. The world is returning to its natural state, to the rule of the weak by the strong. Young as you are, it's you who are out of touch, not me.”

“I just want you to know...that if you didn't get me a single present...the way you love me would be more than enough.”

“I don't suppose I fit into the world, but I fit into the internet”