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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”