“I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.”

“Just going outside put me at risk of winding up dead or captured. If I let that daunt me, I'd never do anything.”

“When you dream of change, it shines bright, like fire, and burns away all the rot that came before it. It's swift and inexorable. You cry for justice, and justice is done. The world stands with you...”

“She was adamant that any organization that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very subst...”

“Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.”

“Every revolution begins with breakfast, I quoted as they left. Is this your revolution, Jaxon?”

“Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if were indifferent to whether we win or lose?”

“Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.”

“His Presbyterian minster father had believed in a divine design, and Mozasu believed that life was like this game where the player could adjust the dials yet also expect the uncertainty of factors ...”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”