“With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.”

“The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..”

“Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. ”

“Some day soon," Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?”

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

“If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”

“Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.”

“I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.”

“Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.”

“That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.”

“Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.”