It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world.

Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.

The ability to represent failure as success would become an Agency tradition.

I like being the girl nobody can have.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence Here or Yonder but to discover truth and beauty and express it, i.e., share it with others?

Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.

It's never felt more Canadian to be Canadian than it does now.

Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.

I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.