You actually said the word effing.

He is worse than the others, I show. He is worst of all of them.Because–Because he knew he was doing wrong. He felt the pain of his actions–But he did not amend them, shows the...

I don’t think it’s about making us fall. It’s about how we get up again.

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

I don’t believe in guardian angels,” Regine says seriously. “Just people who are there for you and people who aren’t

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

Ow, Todd? Ow?

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who...

Ready to grow up, Todd?” the Mayor asks.

Todd?”And Aaron wrenches his arms and there’s a CRACK and a scream and a cut-off yelp that tears my heart in two forever and forever.And the pain is too much it’s too much it’s too...

His absence is so big it’s like he’s there.

Ah, well, then you’ve never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it’s beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than...

Poo,” Manchee’s says quietly.

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.

Besides, what was more perfect an object than a book? The different rags of paper, smooth or rough under your fingers. The edge of the page pressed into your thumbprint as you turned a new...

It’s not how we fall. It’s how we get back up again.

And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

Free, I think. They’re free.(is this why she joined them?)I feel so-So relieved.I pick up the pace as I near the opening, my hands gripping my rifle but I have a feeling I ain’t gonna...

… a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don’t hurt?

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.’ He shakes his head. ‘And there was more. I just couldn’t see it.

What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without tearing it down.

He is sorry-For everything-For Prentisstown-For Viola-For Ben-For every failure and every wrong-For letting his pa down-And he’s looking up at me-And he’s begging me-He’s begging me-Like I’m the only one who can forgive him-Like it’s...

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 -Viola -I grit my teeth and...

He’s seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him. Billions and billions of stars. Billions and billions of worlds. All of them,...