“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”

“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”

“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”

“Yes, but you need to learn your maths."
"I don't need to, really. I already know how to count to a hundred. And I'm sure I'll never need ore than a hundred of anything.”

“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”

“You'll never know the hurt I suffer, nor the pain I rise above, and I'll never know the same about you…”

“I am young, yes, but what I have learned is that love, the beauty of it, the joy of it and yes, even the pain of it, is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being. And we deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise.”

“[...]I should say that it is a good rule of thumb never to mention religion if you can possibly avoid it.”

“You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”