“Family is never really gone.”

“Its all in my mind.Im in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.”

“Or maybe Im not going crazy. Maybe Im some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and Im just breaking down.Im not sure which way is worse.Dad laughs. Youre not in your right mind, dear, he says. No, ...”

“As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, Im discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large en...”

“And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.”

“She is trying to control me with fear, because she cannot control me any other way.My eyes open wide. They burn as if they are on fireno, as if they are made of fire. Eyes are the window to the soul.”

“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.”

“Silence is the loudest sound!”

“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.”

“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”

“The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.”

“I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment...”

“Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.”