“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”

“But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.”

“Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”

“Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.”

“Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’
‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.”

“The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.”

“You want to have a meaningful life? Everything you do matters. That's the definition of a meaningful life. But everything you do matters. So you're going to have to carry that with you.”

“Sometimes you run away by yourself purely so someone who cares will come to find you. Half the time nobody does. That's the tragedy of life.”

“A woman who’s lived in a cage all her life. And hates it. Bored in there, aren’t you. Waiting for life to happen. And when it finally does, it steals from you what you loved most. So take back. Explode. Lash out. Blow up”