“Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.”

“The rich people are those who create wealth, and you have to treat them well so they continue to give wealth.”

“They were a well-behaved group, too; getting in trouble often enough so there could be no doubt about their masculinity, but not enough so that the discipline officer would remember any of their names.”

“Really? That would be a first. I'm the son of, Jason. I might as well be covered in blood or sewage, the way people treat me. I don't belong anywhere. I'm not even from this. But that's not enough to set me apart.”

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

“Wanting to leave is enough.”

“You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.”

“…the way we talk…you know that our people like to talk around a subject even when there's no danger. They enjoy it, and if they know you well enough they're apt to leave their true subject unstated so you'll have to supply the missing meaning.”

“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”

“acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”