“I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.”

“Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.”

“Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.”

“It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.”

“A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.”

“By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.”

“Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work.”

“In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.”

“There was a sergeant at a desk. I knew he was a sergeant because I recognized the marks on his uniform, and I knew it was a desk because it's always a desk. There's always someone at a desk, except...”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”