“If there was ever an example for redemption, it's you.”

“The end is the best part of any story”

“The coolly logical part of her brain noted almost sardonically that Edilio had a superpower after all: being Edilio.”

“That's your solution? Have a cookie?”

“We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.”

“But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain.”

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

“Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.”

“Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...”