If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.It's the strong who remain, the bent but unbroken, like the iron rods that used to give this concrete its strength.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.

Then the door flew open and Mr. Faulks told us to head over to the gym. I thought that was really smart. Get all of us in one place so the aliens didn't have to waste a lot of ammunition.

He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background, several degrees of seperation removed.

Time for the world to end.

Are you okay?" I (Cassie) call up to him."Um. Define okay." (Ben)"Okay means you're not bleeding to death.""I'm okay.

This is the first rule of the last war:Trust No One

We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

Everyone has dreams. But it is what you do with these dreams that is important. Dreams, once you make the decision to act on them can become reality.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Even in the losses, I always saw glimpses of something that kept me going.

If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.