“How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.”

“The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.”

“More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma”

“It's weird. I never knew how much I had to hate about myself until I had the time to think about it.”

“Not everyone in the world is alike. And some of us are a lot more different than others. Some of us were born like this, some of us were changed. But no matter how this happened to you, if you are here it is because this is your destiny. It was chosen for you.”

“Twelve years after Robin's death, no one knew any more about how he had ended up hanged from a tree in his own yard than they had on the day it happened.”