"Bean didn't like his new name, but it was a name, and having a name meant that somebody else knew who he was and needed something to call him, and that was a good thing."
Chap. 1, Urchin, p. 20.

"But her mission in life, she knew, was to care for little children, and the way she saw it, if the Buggers won the next round of the war, all the little children on Earth would die. Surely God did not meant that to happen—but in her judgment, at least, God did not want his servants to sit around waiting for God to work miracles to save them."
Chap. 2, Kitchen, p. 33.

"But civilizing the bullies of the street had not been Achilles' idea. It had been Bean who thought of it. Incredible, for a child so young to conceive of it and bring it about."
Chap. 3, Payback, p...