“People pay money to go in there and that row thrown at them? Could stick your head in a bucket and whack it with a stick for free...”

“Rain spat at him, and he looked up, thinking that alone was the way to be, because alone meant you were in charge of what could get to you and what you could keep out.”

“Everybody wants to fly. At some stage in their lives, everyone looks up in the sky and sees the seemingly effortlessness of a bird in the gulf of air overhead and thinks: I wish, just one time, that could be me.”

“Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.”

“...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.”

“You can't change the past. Even if it hasn't happened yet.”

“There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.”