Fear dims when you learn things.

You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Making lists of reasons was sometimes a good way to figure things out.

There's much more. There's all that goes beyond – all ... that is Elsewhere – and all that goes back, and back, and back. I received all of those, when I was selected. And here in this room, all alone, I re-experience them again and again. It is how wisdom comes. And how we shape our future.

- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it... - They know nothing.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.