“We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.”

“In a sea of trees turned into a sea of total strangers, familiar means everything.”

“Every human soul has seen, perhaps before their birth pure forms such as justice, temperance, beauty and all the great moral qualities which we hold in honour. We are moved towards what is good by the faint memory of these forms simple and calm and blessed which we saw once in a pure, clear light being pure ourselves.”

“I answer her with my silence, understanding the full power of it for the first time. Words are weapons. Weapons are powerful. So are unsaid words. So are unused weapons.”

“Wherever you are, I'll be there. Remember?”

“We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. But we cannot just walk into the cavern and look around. Most of what we think we know about our minds is pseudo-knowledge. We are all such shocking poseurs, so good at inflating the importance of what we think we value.”

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch.But given the state of the world, is it wise?”