Hello, Bradley,’ said Mom. She’d regained her composure after my outburst, and now raised her camera. ‘Stand close.”No, Mom,’ I said. ‘No pictures.”But you’re friend’s here now,’ she said, waving us together. ‘Smile!”I don’t need...

Jayden laughed grimly. ‘Press the attack and hope for the best.”Hope is not a strategy,’ said Kira’It’s not plan A,’ said Jayden, ‘and it shouldn’t be plan B, but it is every plan C that...

Manhattan was a no-man’s land, empty, an unofficial demilitarized zone between Partials and the human survivors. No one was supposed to be here, not because it was forbidden but because it was dangerous. If something...

You’ll never see us coming.

I’d made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between “ignoring her completely” and “abducting her at knifepoint.

It doesn’t matter what other people think when you’re right – John Cleaver

I’m on the edge, Neblin, I’m off the edge – I’m over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.”Calm down, John,’ he said. ‘We can work through this. Just tell me where...

Hello, Kanta. They’re saying interesting things about you on the news,” she said. “I wondered if you’d survived.””He didn’t,” I said. “I killed him.”Silence.”I killed Mkhai, too,” I said. “Tens of thousands of years, gone...

Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny – John Cleaver

It’s easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we’re doing something.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

People are always afraid of other things, they are never afraid of themselves.

We’re taking you to the hospital,’ it said, ‘you’re going into shock. Can you tell us how you feel?”I feel …’ What do I feel?I guess that’s good enough.I feel.

Finally Marcus stepped forward. “If you insist on going through me to get him, it’s your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you’ll fell bad about it...

Es un sueño fantástico -dijo Xochi.-Sí -respondió Kira-. Supongo que los sueños fantásticos son lo único que nos queda.

Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

Moral,” said Vale.”That’s an interesting adjective to apply to ‘genocide’.

… if you have the strength to complain, you have the strength to do something about it.

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

The camp fell silent, each group staring tensely at the other. Finally Marcus stepped forward. ”If you insist on going through me to get to him, it’s your call. But I warn you, I will...

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

Last of all, this book owes perhaps its biggest debt to the ultimate models for Kira and Heron and every other awesome girl in the Partials series: my two daughters. May you always have heroines...

In my biology class, we’d talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe, reproduce, and grow. Dogs do, rocks don’t, trees do, plastic doesn’t....

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

,Qué tiene que ver que sea justo o no? Mira bien, pero muy bien el mundo, Xochi: es un lugar bastante injusto.-El mundo, sí -dijo Xochi-. Pero eso no significa que debamos imitarlo. Me gustaría...

Isolde took a swig. “It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not. Your government just gave you two months to get knocked up.” She held up the bottle, her face dull and red. “Cheers.”...

Szépen vagyunk – mondta anya. (…) Egyetlen családtagunk büszkélkedhet normális párkapcsolattal, az is szociopata.

This is life…Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak–the ones too small or too foolish to fight back–die in...

Well, thanks for not shooting anyone, I guess”, said Marcus. “My contribution was to somehow refrain from peeing myself. You can thank me later.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

The most important thing you can ever know is that no matter what your purpose is, that’s not your only choice.

It’s not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That’s how we’re built, that’s how every Partial is wired – to follow orders and...

Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you don’t. It’s like learning a foreign language: You can think about the words...

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

It’s just one thing after another. Cars that won’t run. Planes that will never fly again. Computer systems we can barely use, let alone re-create. It’s like…time is flowing backward. We’re caveman archeologists in the...

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.