“When much is taken, something is returned.”

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”

“Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.”

“WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.”

“You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.”

“The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.”

“Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.”