“why are you ending our engagement then?""Because of the reason you fought it" (The duel)"I don't understand.""I know”

“I don't want you to hate me. You have every reason to, I know. But I don't want that to be the end of our story.”

“Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.”

“I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...”

“Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map.”

“I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?”