“It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.”

“There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”

“She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people who do not.”

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

“To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over again until you either figure it out or you discover a multiplicity of other cool tricks along the way.”

“The whites do not believe in such things," Charley said."Believe?" Tupshin was bewildered. "What is this talk of belief? Do they not believe in the sea, then? Or the mountains? There is a thing which is, it is not for believing or not believing.”