* "'We can send you home tonight,' one of them said. 'As soon as you tell us where she is.'
I swallowed. 'I didn't know she existed.'
'We know better,' the man said." (Chapter 1)
* "There were many things I didn't understand about myself or the world right then, but at that moment I did know one thing for certain: I had no more use for the name Adam." (Chapter 2)
* "'You'll be fighting for England, for freedom,' the man had said. 'For civilization itself.'" (Chapter 3)
* "I couldn't speak, but I looked into his eyes, trying to show him that I understood...or at least that I was trying to understand. I'm not sure if I succeeded, but I like to think that he did see it, some tiny thread of something that would carry me through." (Chapter 4)
* "At the end of the day, I am not a hero. I am a survivor. And all I wanted to do was go home." (Chapter 5)
* "'The real difference is that you are working against the enemy's war machine; you're trying to stop them. We're trying to break it.'" (Chapter 7)
* "At that moment, as the sun rose over Lake Ontario and the waves shimmered in the distance, I realized that everything I had ever done, everything I had ever been taught, had led me to this place and this time. I was ready." (Chapter 8)
* "When I got to shore, I turned and watched as they disappeared into the night, their boat becoming smaller and smaller until it was just a dark speck on the horizon. I was almost home." (Chapter 9)