Vosch's Quotes

#1. I'm hoping to pass for one of Vosch's tween recruits, but I probably look more like GI Joe's little sister playing dress up

Rick Yancey

#2. That's the flaw in Vosch's master plan: If you don't kill all of us all at once, those who remain will not be the weak.

Rick Yancey

#3. You belong to them now. Vosch the sculptor, my body the clay, but not my spirit, never my soul. Unconquered. Uncrushed. Uncontained.

Rick Yancey

#4. An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]

C.S. Lewis

#5. Meditation is a mental discipline that enables us to do one thing at a time.

Max Picard

#6. You know what you do when you can't stand up and march, soldier? Vosch asks. You crawl.

Rick Yancey

#7. And of course, in front of me was Mr. Ugly himself. "I can read your mind y'know," the Head Admin pointed out. "You can read!?" The Head Admin sighed. "You

Minecrafer

#8. Not all knowledge comes from the mind. Your body, your heart, your intuition. Sometimes memories even have minds of their own.

Kelly Barnhill

#9. Naming an emotion begins the process of regulating it and reflecting on it.

Sue Johnson

#10. By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.

Robert Motherwell

#11. Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

Brooke Fraser

#12. The dead have their reward, Vosch says. It is the living - you and I - who still have work to do

Rick Yancey

#13. Those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take up arms to defend or introduce an opinion, are still in war, and their condition not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one another, and they live as it were in the precincts of battle continually.

Thomas Hobbes

#14. What doesn't kill us sharpens us. Hardens us. Schools us. You're beating plowshares into swords, Vosch. You are remaking us. We are the clay, and you are Michelangelo. And we will be your masterpiece.

Rick Yancey

#15. It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for the human mind to override: Protect the young at all costs. Preserve the future." - Vosch

Rick Yancey

#16. We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

Lenny Kravitz

#17. Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".

George Eliot

#18. This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

Bela Karolyi

#19. You are the human clay," Vosch whispers fiercely in my ear. "And I am Michelangelo. I am the master builder, and you will be my masterpiece.

Rick Yancey