“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“Thats what being alive is, Thing! Its being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”

“Yes, but nomes arent hard to make, said Dorcas. You just need other nomes. Youre weird.”

“He stared at his feet. Im still very ignorant, he said, but at least Im ignorant about really important things.”

“She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to hav...”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”