Explore Book Quotes

“We’ll have to hit the road, for when a man undertakes to do his own business, it is not likely that he will be disappointed.”

Childhood’s logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute)

“She’ll be struck by my good looks and charm and musical talent . . . Then she’ll give in and dance with me and follow me up to New York after graduation, to be my groupie.”

“He said patients came first, prisoners second, and students third, but this didn’t leave out much of humanity.”

“It was a kid. A child. I had a clear view in my scope, but I didn’t fire. I wasn’t going to kill a kid, innocent or not. I’d have to wait until the savage who put him up to it showed himself on the street.”

The evil from that chilling incident still grips Cheshunt and is now rapidly gaining power. Nathaniel finds himself drawn to a group of misfits at school and they are soon involved in a struggle against the terrible forces that seek total control of the community.

“You see, there were kids at school—they hated their parents or they hated other people so much that you knew—it wasn’t just being angry, it was hating. I can’t explain what I mean, but I could feel the unhappiness.”

“Everything I found in books that pleased me I retained in my memory, consciously or unconsciously, and adapted it.”

“Done is better than perfect.”

“Justice delivered without dispassion is always in danger of not being justice.”