“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.”

“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”

“Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.”

“I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are always going away.”

“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.”

“What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it’s knowing you carry your scars with you.”

“The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.”