"Books have taught me so much of the world, things that I'm not able to learn on my own— I can spend hours upon hours flipping through pages." (24)

"It was a morning like every other morning. They all tend to be the same nowadays. Your usual grinding with the hope that things will get better." (31)

"Here I am thinking about social revolution in my metal can on four wheels. This is insane! We are sitting in metal cans on wheels wasting the only thing we can't get back, time. Trying to get to a place where we don't even want to be— but we must. I wonder exactly when it was that everything changed. Do you remember? Do you remember how your younger self looked up to older you? All the promises and dreams. We could all have been truly something special, but now we are just something else." (32-33)