“I want to leave a mark.But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”

“The marks humans leave are too ofter scars.”

“People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.”

“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.”

“His memory is compromised,' Lidewij said. 'If only my memory would compromise,' Van Houten responded.”

“You are a side effect," Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.”