You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening.

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

Maybe there was no happily ever after [...] but there was happiness sometimes and she had it now, doing what she knew she was born for.