“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”

“It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different,...”

“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”

“Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.”

“Why break the heart that never beat from love?”

“Steerpike of the Many Problems, said the Doctor. What did you say they were? My memory is so very untrustworthy. Its as fickle as a fox. Ask me to name the third lateral bloodvessel from the extrem...”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”