Among the Enemy Quotes

“Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Enemy

“He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil."....
He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Enemy

“Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Enemy

“Tiddy”? Matthias thought. The big, fierce Population Police officer goes by “Tiddy”?”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Enemy

“My name’s Tidwell, by the way,” the officer said. “Friends call me ‘Tiddy.’ ”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Enemy

“he kept getting glimmers of hope—hope that died instantly when he moved the chairs aside and saw nothing there.”
― Margaret Peterson Haddix, Among the Enemy