“If you were a crayon, what color would you most like to make out with?”

“If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”

“The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?"”

“If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen.”

“If you could come out of your shell, you would see what you are most afraid of is your power.”

“If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.”

“You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.”

“These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.”

“[To Mr. Johnson] If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.”

“First you find out what you have, Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.”