“Strict parents create sneaky kids.”

“There is no afterlife for wilted flowers like me.”

“Sleep is the only thing I stay awake for.”

“Some people were simply created with the right genes and the proper social skills, I figured. They ended up at a lunch table with a group of good-looking individuals, like them, who did what all go...”

“There's always hope. And oceans. Hope and oceans.”

“Not all beaches are fun and sunscreen.”

“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”

“Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?”

“If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?"- David King”

“Lesson one: expect to get screwed over for the convenience of others on a regular basis.”

“All this bunch of so-called 'adults' was doing was making enemies of one another when what they really needed to be concentrating on was how to get out alive.”

“Now you're an adult, Katya!" he'd said, picking her up under the armpits like he'd been doing since she'd been born.”

“If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses”

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

“A human teenager. One of Gods most misbegotten creatures big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.”