“Maybe there's no one right way to be a good person, and maybe there's no advisory board signing off on who does and doesn't deserve badges.”

“All that matters is that artists keep reminding mortals about what really matters: the wonder, the glory, the madness, the importance and the improbability of love.”

“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.”

“The happiest, healthiest, most productive people aren’t those from a particular Tendency, but rather they’re the people who have figured out how to harness the strengths of their Tendency, counteract the weaknesses, and build the lives that work for them.”

“It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan.”

“A pure heart faces the worst kind of evil in this world. But as it sleeps it's blessed, and it wakes up cleansed and a little bit stronger.”

“The highest aim of womanhood is not motherhood; the highest aim of womanhood is being conformed to the image of Christ.”

“Everyone tells lies to get what they want. First of all we tell lies to ourselves and then we tell them to everyone else. That's what the past becomes - a kind of flower bed in which you're uprooting and replanting all the time.”