The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn’t intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.

Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person’s needs before your own.

I love you Anna Covey,′ he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn’t a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.

What does time matter when every moment is stolen anyway?

Because man still feared death, feared disappearing into nothingness, feared how death made each life insignificant.

They let you down, you let them down, then they’re your best friend, until next time.

Forever isn’t important-it’s now that counts. Doing the right thing.

Reading and writing were a dangerous business; they made you think.

The snow is not falling for you.

But there was nothing beautiful about the word “brainwash”. To clean the brain. To strip it bare.