"Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try and shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to get right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all. The richness and poverty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honor my friends who died. That's the best way I can honor my parents, who brought me into this world. That's the best way I can lead a life that I can be proud to call my own. I want to experience everything it has to offer: LIFE."

- Ellie Linton, The Other Side Of Dawn (John Marsden)