“Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy and enthusiasm. His fighting style is like breakdancing--strong and frenetic with so...”

“Your death, strange human. I mean, your injury. No murder, just a little maiming. So I can leave. Maimings not so bad.”

“But worries are for people who cant pull grown men apart with their bare hands.”

“I eye the three of them, considering. Theyll need a lesson in discretion before I go. Not a lethal lesson. Mom wouldnt like that.”

“My teeth rip skin; my jaws snap bones. I am fast, lightning-fast, snuff oh-was-that-your-life?oh-was-that-your-life? fast.”

“Oooooh, dont make her mad! the leader gasps around his laughter.”

“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 God’s most misbegotten creatures – big like grown-ups and yet dumb like children.”

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”

“Do you know why you feel destined for something greater? Why? Kip asked, quiet, hopeful. Because youre an arrogant little shit.”

“I knew from Brianna that being beautiful wasnt all great. Brianna had changed in middle school. One day we were both seventh graders and the next, she was a supermodel who had a seventh grader for ...”