“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ”

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.”

“Instead of getting at the other side with something just as bad as they did to you - or something worse - you do something good. Or at least you keep yourself from doing something bad”

“When you protect yourself from pain, be sure you do not protect yourself from love.”

“Chaos, I think, is youth. Youth at any age. Because as long as you have chaos, you are free of responsibility. When you are in chaos, when you don't know what's going on, when you're an ignorant dreamer...when you're floating through space like that, you aren't supposed to get anything right, you aren't supposed to make sense, you're supposed to be...amused,,,and aware. It can't go on. Not unless you choose that life. A life of never settling down, never making a claim on who you are, who you love... Once you make those claims you become accountable. You have to get to work...Dreams end. That's one thing I'm discovering.”

“A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...”