“(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.”

“You know, if you monitored the humidity a little better in here, you might reduce the irritants.''I assume you're referring to the mites, and not the lawyers.”

“Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.”

“He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.”

“Beauty is not in the size of clothes you wear or how you look. Beauty is what size your heart is. Just be you”

“They were like those deep-sea creatures with watery, transparent skin: you could see the soft little jerking beans of their hearts, you understood that the very thing that was supposed to protect them was the thing that made them vulnerable, and you knew you couldn’t help them, so you decided to love them instead.”