“Pretending to know everything gets you nowhere. Seek criticism. That's how you learn what you need to know. That's how you grow.”

“When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.”

“You know how a river goes on and on? That's my love for you.”

“What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.”

“That's the trouble with people like you, Knight, you only know how to mock. How to break things. You don't know how to create anything. You never did.”

“what is it you have, or don't have, that you sit there completely self-contained, that you can sit and know . . . and know exactly where your feet are? Yes, that's what makes cats incredible, because you know they're aware every instant of where their feet are, and they know how much they have to share with other cats, they don't try to . . . pretend . . .”

“That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.”