“We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can”

“Nobody is perfect, though. We all want everyone to think we are, but perfection is some crazy mythical state that we can never achieve. It is a goal beyond our grasp, always shifting and changing and taunting us, because it knows...it knows we can never reach it.”

“... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?”

“I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.”

“We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.”

“Zara. We all need to rescue and we all need to be rescued.”

“What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.”