“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

“The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.”

“The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.”

“You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.”

“She understands all at once, with a small shock, exactly what it is she always needed to tell Harland: being there in person is not the same as watching. You might see things better on television, but you'll never know if you were alive or dead while you watched.”

“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”