Now, if you asked him what he was going to do with himself, he'd tell you he guessed he might do anything he set his mind to. But he'd say it in a far-off way, as if he didn't really mean it or care much at all.

What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.

Ich habe gelernt, dass es auch Gutes auf der Welt gibt, wenn man genau hinschaut und danach sucht. Ich habe gelernt, dass nicht jeder eine Enttäuschung ist - einschließlich mir selbst - und dass eine dreihundertundachtzig Meter hohe Beule im Boden erhabener vorkommen kann als ein Glockenturm, wenn man neben der richtigen Person steht. (Finch)