"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."
"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."
"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."
"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
"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..."
"Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."