How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

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

If Springtime crawls out of thewild mouths of flowers, thensurely, Winter crawls out of mine.

Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart.

Let time that makes you homely make you sage.

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

When I look at the net I don't see a goalie.

Lasting and strong relations cannot be built on short-lived interests. A credible partnership is inconceivable without shared values and commitment to the same ideas.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.