UnSouled

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?

A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.

Sometimes, Lev, I just want to smack you." "You already hit him with a car.

She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice.

(B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.

Talking about someone in the third person is rude." Cam tells her coolly. "Really?" Says Connor. "When you're a hundred people, wouldn't third person be a compliment?

They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear. -Sonia

definition. How can she not see that when you are defined, you lose the ability to define yourself?

They are not people--they are ideas. They are just extensions of the enemy.

You must stop these reckless surrenders to your momentary moods.

Please give me a single reason why I shouldn't hurl myself beneath the wheels of that bus.

Love the ponytail," Connor says, pointing at his hair. Lev shrugs. "It's just because my hair is so tatted. But maybe I'll keep it." "Don't," Connor tells him. "I lied. I hate it.

Cam knows this is not going to be a good day the moment he sees the chain saw.

If you come anywhere near my daughter, I will see to it that you are taken apart piece by bloody piece. Do I make myself clear?" "Any clearer," says Cam, "and you'd be invisible.

But birthdays are random... Defining one's life by the day one was cut from an umbilical cord is completely arbitrary.

a true leader never puts his ego ahead of his assets.

I'm against solutions that are worse than the problem. Like old women who want their hair dyed the color of shoe polish to hide the gray.

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

But life doesn’t end,” the smiling proponents of unwinding all insist. “It just transforms. We like to call it ‘living in a divided state.’

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

I was actually being sincere,” Connor admits. “But I’m happy to insult you, if that’s what you want.

The exploration of possibility has always been the realm of science. The true scientist leave practical application to others.