“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!”

“to live at all is to be bruised”

“If a reasoned creator set the stars in their place then we must be capable of understanding them - we must also be creatures of reason, of order!”

“anything that was ever worth knowing began with once upon a time”

“There was grief, too, that was certain, and she was grateful for it, since however loathed he'd been by the end, he'd formed her, at least in part - and what good ever came of self-loathing?”

“Besides(..), it's a poor woman whose ambition is only to be loved.”

“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”

“what use was it to observe the human species and try to understand it? Their rules were fathomless and no mire fixed than the wind”

“Luke diagnosed himself to be in love, and sought no cure for the disease.”

“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”

“Not even knowledge takes all the strangeness from the world”