“Were it not for the melanin in our skin, myoglobin in our muscles and haemoglobin in our blood, we would be the colour of mitochondria. And, if this were so, we would change colour when we exercised or ran out of breath, so that you could tell how energized someone was from his or her colour.”

“When we first came hereWe were cold and we were clearwith no colours on our skinWe were light and paper thin.And when we first came hereWe were cold and we were clearWith no colours on our skin'Till you let the Spectrum in.--Spectrum”

“There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.”

“Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.”

“If we could live all our lives in the present, with no recourse to what has gone before or what might yet be, we would be so much the simpler for it. But in fact the here and now of life is all too often the least considered, while thoughts of the past and expectations of the future conspire to tangle our minds with irreconcilable regrets and hopes.""The Hole”

“How we remember changes how we have lived.Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.”

“Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.”