“I was so lonely.” And Father Time said, “You were never alone.”

“She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-delusion, and the truth enveloped her like a cocoon, and all she said was "I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.”

“You were never alone.”

“No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.”

“Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.”

“Sacrifice,” The Captain said. “You made one. I made one. We all make them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost.You didn’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices. A mother works so her son can go to school. A daughter moves home to take care of her sick father.”

“What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?”