“Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone youve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didnt know?”

“A worm of fear wriggled in Jadens stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments before evaporated as the worm burrowed deeper. When he next spoke, his own voice of trapped hysteria bro...”

“There were so many viciously sarcastic ways to respond, Jadens brain was temporarily paralyzed due to witty comeback overload.”

“I've been to the other side...You're dead there, too.”

“The two studied one another for what seemed hours, neither saying a word. Jadens first inclination was to yell and demand his freedom, but something held him back. Here was a new man, and a new set...”

“Though it was mid-July, the morning was brisk, the sky a gray cotton of clouds, and Puget Sound a steely, cold blue. Most of Seattle grumbled, worn with winterish weather, impatient for the elusive...”

“It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.It's not a weakness.It's your best strength.”

“No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.”

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”

“they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin.”

“Im not a rebel. I was sent here to protect, not to harm.”

“Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.”