I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

If you think you’ll find intellectual stimulation, you’re thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I’ve never been more bored by casual chat.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

Designs that have a whiff of complex impenetrability tends to suggest big, complicated ideas. Academic writing tends to work the same way, I understand.

I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

I went - I had designed - in high school designed hundreds and hundreds of computers over and over and over, so I developed these skills without ever thinking I'd do it in life as job.