“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.”

“So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?"And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear m...”

“Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this weeks end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.”

“And the pain is too much its too much its too much and my hands are on my head and Im rearing back and my mouth is open in a never-ending wordless wail of all the blackness thats inside of me.”

“You won't," says the Mayor, smiling again. "Everyone knows you aren't a killer, Todd."He pushes Viola forward again -She calls out from the pain of it -Viola, I think - -I grit my teeth and raise t...”

“Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.”

“Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the worl...”

“A peace that blacked yer eye,' I say. 'A peace that split yer lip.' He looks at me for another second and then gives a sad snort. The words of a sage, he says, in the voice of a hick.”

“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the skys too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?And what if the air tastes of honey? What...”

“I personally think humans have got about as far as we can go. We're wrecking the planet. We're never short of good reasons to massacre each other. Wrong god. Wrong race. Wrong color. Wrong sex. I'm...”

“The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.”