“He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays--cynical but hopeful.”

“So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all.”

“This,’ whispered the Doctor to Romana, ‘is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.”

“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”

“Change your mind about playing doctor?""No, but I hear candy-striper uniforms are pretty cute.”

“There was something about Jace, though, that made her want to push him, crack that shell of cynicism and make him admit her believed something, felt something, cared about anythinng at all.”