“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”

“I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.”

“It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.”

“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”

“The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.”

“Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on, living alone down there in the darkness...”

“I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.”