What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

It's hard to know what's right in this life, ' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459

Yeah, well, we're all afraid." I sighed. "The angry more than most, I think.

Freedom. He offered it like someone who didn't know what it meant, someone who had never had it taken away."pg 185

I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287

Soft hearts make the universe worth living in.

There is an art to Noavek bullshit, " Cyra said as she muted the feed. "We're taught it from birth.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189

Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.

It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.