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

“The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.”

“We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.”

“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.”

“You know what you are, young 'un? You're the grand bloody panjandrum of the painfully bleeding obvious.”

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