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.

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.

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 are humanity, the banner read. Wrong. We’re pale reflections of it, weak shadows, distant echoes.

Because If you ever think of me in the future I want you to remember me smiling

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

I don't just denounce suicide bombers. I denounce those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to advance their foreign policy.

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.