“I don't want a new purpose. I want what's mine. I want my birthright.”

“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?”

“It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do.”

“I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.”

“I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.”

“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.”

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”