And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.