"You mean... would I kill him, or have him killed, or cut off his bits?" IM SOBBING

This book is nothing short of absolutely amazing. The art drew me in from the first page, and the plot wrapped around my wrist and pulled me through to the very end; I didn't want it to end. I am wholeheartedly planning on reading the rest of this series, and I encourage all graphic novel and manga lovers to indulge and fall in love.

"You can't give me anything worth betraying everything I believe in."
"Now that's just unamerican..."

"I sponsor the local chapter of the young republicans!" Good job, Satan. Good for you.

I tried. I tried so very hard to continue to hate this book in the last fifty pages as I did in the last hundred. But, alas, I'm a sucker for a happy ending. The plot was very... all over the place, to be honest, but the characters and their development were what really made it a good book. I, however, will not recommend this book. If you want to read it, go for it. But I will not be blamed when you're trudging through and begging for it to end.

"Almost, but not quite. Not ever. Because being human is a hard lesson to learn and you really have to start young, and practice constantly, if you're going to stand a chance of getting good at it."

"No answer. There never is when you really need one."

"I can only become a whole girl in a place that offers resistance; a place that makes me fight for what I want."

"This whole bravery thing was a terrible idea."

"Maybe it's my imagination, but I could swear the wall looks offended."

"Mostly we don't get destroyed. Mostly we destroy ourselves."

"It is so hard to leave--until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamn thing in the world."

"But isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals."

"Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."

"When you look into the darkness, the darkness looks into you."

"But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."

"I would die for you. But I won't live for you."

"Oh my God, who the hell do you think you are, Jesus Christ himself?"
"Oh no. No. Not at all. Jesus forgave people. I'm under no such obligation."

"Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props."