“Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.”

“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”

“All humans on earth are one. We descend from the same family of common ancestors. We are, in a quite literal sense, siblings, and like siblings we depend on each other's love and care and responsibility. We are interdependent not just in our families and communities, but in nations, and increasingly on a global scale - just as we are also interdependent with nature and the earth.”

“You shook his hand?" Adrian asked incredulously
…
“With all that red-hot passion, it’s a wonder you guys can stay away from each other”

“It's your fault, Eeyore. You've never been to see any of us. You just stay here in this one corner of the Forest waiting for the others to come to you. Why don't you go to THEM sometimes?”

“All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself.”

“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”

“That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other.”

“All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.”

“The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they’ve been at other times.”