“Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.”

“Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.”

“A freedom given up is not so easily regained.”

“One tends to look at life a whole lot differently when one realises they may lose it soon. -Emit Eht”

“There is death in life, and it astonishes me that we pretend to ignore this: death, whose unforgiving presence we experience with each change we survive because we must learn to die slowly. We must learn to die: That is all of life.”

“for the unexamined life is not worth living.”

“If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.”

“I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”