“I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.”

“I've learned to do without a lot of things. If you have a lot of things, said Aunt Lydia, you get too attached to this material world and you forget about spiritual values.”

“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”

“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”

“I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn”

“We've learned to see the world in gasps.”

“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.”