“Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.”

“A name isn't a person,' Ga said. 'Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're...”

“Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.”

“[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.”

“Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.”

“This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldnt understand what they meant for a long, long time.”

“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and m...”

“On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.”

“To travel is to see the world as it is.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”