Little Brother Quotes

Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Little Brother.

Fear Quotes

I was being taken off America's shores to somewhere else, and who the hell knew where that was? I'd been scared before, but this thought terrified me, left me paralyzed and wordless with fear. (4.4)

Friendship Quotes

[Vanessa:] "They keep asking me questions about you and Darryl."There was a voice blaring over the loudspeaker, shouting at us to stop talking, to walk, but we ignored it."Answer them," I said, ins...

Identity Quotes

My name is Marcus Yallow, but back when this story starts, I was going by w1n5t0n. Pronounced "Winston." (1.1)

Rules and Order Quotes

Who were these clowns? They weren't wearing insignia. Maybe they were terrorists! I'd never really believed in terrorists before ­­ I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somew...

Power Quotes

Ever since the truancy moblog went live, our world is full of nosy shopkeepers and pecksniffs who take it upon themselves to snap our piccies and put them on the net where they can be perused by sc...

Freedom and Confinement Quotes

She'd told me what my path was to freedom ­­ to the world, to my parents ­­ and that had given me hope. Now she'd threatened to send me away, to take me off that path, and my hope had crashed a...

Cunning and Cleverness Quotes

I prefer to inject a little randomness into my attacks on gait­recognition: I put a handful of gravel into each shoe. Cheap and effective, and no two steps are the same. Plus you get a great refle...

Technology and Modernization Quotes

The answer is something ingenious called TOR ­­ The Onion Router. An onion router is an Internet site that takes requests for web­pages and passes them onto other onion routers, and on to other...