“And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.”

“...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.”

“If you stay here, you become lost. And no one can find you. I like lost.”

“He watches the sun out of the world and the stars into it and sometimes I wonder if he watches the sun come up again. Is it hard to sleep when you know you are almost at the end? Do you not want to...”

“One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He was an English teacher when I met him. He wrote poetry and played the guitar. As time went on, he decided...”

“Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.”

“Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt a...”

“The world can be seen from so many different angles. Each of us is born seeing the world in a different way, and each moment we live shapes our eyes and hearts differently.”

“Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want the men wind up suckered into things.”

“Scriptures are as helping problem. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”