“Let them come with their night-vision glasses and their heavy, branch-breaking bodies. Right into the range of my arrows.”

“If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of feelings. It comes with the package.”

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”

“It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.”

“We can continue to say to our girls as they grow into women, 'Come up here and scrunch under this glass ceiling with me.' Or we can say to them, 'Let me break this ceiling so when you come up here with me, we can stand up straight under the open sky.”

“Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, "Come back, my child, come back!”