“To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.”
“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!”
“A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.”
“A person who reads lives a thousand lives. A person who reads not, lives only one.”