“There is no greater pain or punishment than memory.”

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it.”

“Do you love him?" Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.”

“If we accept time for what it is, how it flows and how we flow with it, I doubt very much that would continue wasting loads of it by constantly checking our watches.”

“Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.”

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”

“I don’t need your praise to survive. I was here first, before you were here, before you ever planted a garden. And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon are left, and the sea, and the wide field. I will constitute the field.”

“Real ladies can give orders, Real gentlemen can take them, and Real zombies don’t eat brains.”