Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.