Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time.""I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia.""But it keeps not ending.""So far, so good.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don’t want to go through what you’ve been through to get there.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Because human nature never changes.

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

Philosophy is the highest music.

Men are jealous of every woman, even when they don’t have the slightest interest in her themselves.

Good music always defeats bad luck.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who’d be next?

I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…

He squinted at me. "What are you wearing? Is that some new form of birth control?

It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.