“When your only option is to jump, you jump and try to make it work.”

“When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.”

“When you have to jump, you jump.”

“...your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?”

“And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief."Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel."Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.”

“After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?”

“It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.”