To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.

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

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

the whole point of literature, I think, is that it’s the best technology we have for communicating what another person’s life feels like from the inside.

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

What does this mean 'mailer daemon'? Satan, are you messing with the e-mail system already?

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.