“It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.”
“Does the soul have a passport? Or do you simply pick the branch of the family tree that you prefer, with its preferred location, and hang your history on it?”
“Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.”
“You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?""It's a distance that can't be measured.""Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.”
“Which do you think is greater,” he asked, “the moral distance that separates us from the most monstrous of Nazis or that which separates us from God?”
“Be aware that, Great distances sometimes separate dreamland from reality. ”