“This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.”

“It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.”

“That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.”

“No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’‘And what if the air tastes of honey? What if there’s so much food we all get too fat? What if the sky is so beautiful we don’t get any work done because we’re all looking at it too much?”

“Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?”

“You let me go," I say. "I'll show you all about how I'm gonna transform you.”

“If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean”