Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...

How can you stand to do it? The poor little mouse!"

Grover shrugged. "It's nature," he said. "Nature likes the snake just as much as the mouse.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.