“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”

“They had certain Fixed Ideas implanted by Moreau in their minds which absolutely bounded their imaginations. They really were hypnotized, had been told certain things were impossible, and certain things were not to be done, and these prohibitions were woven into the texture of their minds beyond any possibility of disobedience or dispute. ”

“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”

“Losing your co-remember meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before”

“nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.”

“There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.”