I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be..

Things change, but they stay the same..

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you..

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job..

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows..

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles….

The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the ve….

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do..

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell..

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shutup, Man….

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility..

It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages..

No," I say firmly. "If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that..

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war..

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race..

Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like the….

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.

If the world wants you, it's gonna keep on coming till it gets you. And who am I that can fix it? Who am I that can change this if the world wants it….

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me….

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends..

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decisi….