“Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?”

“We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”

“If we could see the fullness of our tomorrows, how many of us would take desperate action to change the future? What if our far seeing showed us the loss of our homes, our families, our very lives, and to save it all we would need only to barter away our most precious souls. Who among us would give up what we cannot see for what we can hold in our hands? I believe many of us would peel ourselves away from our immortal selves as easily as the skin from a boiled plum if it meant we could remain on the earth for a while, our bellies full and our beds warm and safe at night. (214)”

“Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.”

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.”

“If actions were always judged by their consequence, we’d spend half our lives making amends.” -Luke Skywalker”