"Be patient and without bitterness, and realize that the least we can do is to make coming into existence no more difficult for Him than the earth does for spring when it wants to come."
"Now I will do nothing but listen, To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it [...] to feel the puzzle of puzzles, And that we call Being."
"We're pattern-finders, and we'll find patterns, and we like really put our hearts and minds into it and even if we don't mean to. So I believe in a universe that doesn't care and people who do."
"'People have forgotten this truth,' the fox said. 'But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.'"
"We slipped out onto the road, just these two featureless shadows, and ever since that night we've been detailing. Coloring in. Specifying. I feel more like myself every day."
"Rats, we're rats, we're the rats, we prey at night, we stalk at night, we're the rats. I'm the giant rat that makes all of the rules; let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into…"
"The stadium lights were painfully bright, but we could still see the stars stretched into every corner of our giddy brains. I pointed out Cassiopeia. At first, we were quiet. Our whispers disappeared in the summer air and I reached out to push one of her stray curls behind her ear. She held my palm against her cheek. And then we were loud."
