The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459

Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287

What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

There is an art to Noavek bullshit, " Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.

What our enemies have begun, we will finish.

I made a ridiculous statement when I first went to North Carolina State. I said I know basketball down there was like life or death. It was very wrong. It's more important.

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

The teacher "teaches" and the students "sit and listen" or learn passively.

[Songs] have to be a part of you. They have to be in your DNA. That's how I approached it.

My life is basically my work.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.