“Because despite the undeniable knowledge that I wasn't humanor mostly human, anywaydespite the proof the computer screen had show in the repair room, I still picture my interior just the same as an...”

“Mom wanted me to fight. To live.I'd just never dreamed that I'd have to do it alone.”

“No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try.”

“Because despite the undeniable knowledge that I wasn't human—or mostly human, anyway—despite the proof the computer screen had show in the repair room, I still picture my interior just the same as ...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”