“All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.”

“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.”

“How you think matters more than what you think.”

“The universe is always stranger than you think.
It didn’t matter how broad her imagination was, how cynical, how joyous and open, how well researched or wild minded. The universe was always stranger. Every dream, every imagining, however lavish and improbable, inevitably fell short of the truth.”

“Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.”

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“…I finally understood what true love really meant. …that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“Maths seem to be based on predestination. You have the question, but the answer is already there. Your task is to get it correct, no matter how many times you have failed.”

“This is how you knew what a fool was—someone who didn't know what mattered to him in the long run”

“You knew the truth all along, Colie. That's all matters. You knew.”