"Sacrfice,"the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to."
"Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves."
"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."