“...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.”

“At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.”

“He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.”

“Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.”

“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.”

“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 ...”