“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”

“There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.”

“One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.”

“Faith isn't about logic, son," Haddek said. "Perhaps that's your problem. You cannot 'disprove' the things you study, any more than we can prove to you that the Hero will save us. We simply must believe it, and accept the things Preservation has taught us.”

“Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.”

“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.”