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“The Stranger makes us nervous... but we love to try on his face in secret”

“Say something, anything, to remind me why I shoudn't hurt to be with to you so much it makes it hard for me to breath.”

“There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”

“It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.”

“Ojciec mi kiedyś powiedział, że do skrzywdzenia drugiego człowieka wystarczy jedno niewłaściwie wypowiedziane słowo. Każdy potrafi zranić, każdy kto ma usta albo rękę, żeby pisać.”

“Gniew to rodzaj zabójstwa, które popełnia się w sercu.”

“Twierdziła, że gwiazdy to dusze i że za każdym razem, kiedy ktoś umiera, na niebie pojawia się nowa gwiazda.”

“Jude nauczył mnie, czym jest miłość: chęcią podzielenia się bólem z drugą osobą.”

“Po prostu ludzie potrzebują odpowiedzi, nawet jeśli są błędne. Wolimy kłamstwo niż pytanie, na które nie jesteśmy w stanie poznać odpowiedzi.”

“Gwiazdy są jak piekarniki - W ich środku pieką się planety i asteroidy, a kiedy eksplodują, wypluwają z siebie coś jakby kosmiczne rzygi, które piekły się przez te wszystkie lata. I tak utworzył się Układ Słoneczny i Ziemia, i glony, aż w końcu tlen. A małe organizmy przekształciły się w duże zwierzęta, po miliardzie lat rozwinął się z nich człowiek, masz więc odpowiedź. Pochodzimy z gwiazd.”

“Nie istnieją dwa takie same umysły. Nikt nie będzie postrzegał świata w identyczny sposób jak ty.”

“I niemal rozumiem, co to znaczy czuć się tak uwięzionym, że porzuca się cały świat, byle tylko się uwolnić. ”

“Popatrz tylko na nas - rzekł głucho. - Uciekliśmy do lasu, bo uważaliśmy, że tamten świat jest niecywilizowany. Ale leśna głusza nie zmienia tego, kim naprawdę jesteśmy. Wręcz przeciwnie. Wyciąga z nas, co najgorsze. [...] Popatrz, w co nas zamieniła. W dzikusów. ”

“Nie istnieją dwa takie same umysły. Nikt nie będzie postrzegał świata w identyczny sposób jak ty.”

“However, recent times, unfortunate, there has been a growing degeneration of the judiciary power, which finds its expression in a specific interpretation of the basic principles of this power (…) The degenerate form of these principles takes the form of three supposed principles: exclusivity, omnipotence, and voluntarism, which seem to be followed by some judges and legal theorists:”

“(...) I share almost ninety-nine per cent of my genes with a chimpanzee - and our longevity is virtually the same - but I don't think you have an inkling of how much more I comprehend, and yet I know I must tear myself away from it. For example, I have a good grasp of just how infinitely great outer space is and how it's divided into galaxies and clusters of galaxies, spirals and lone stars, and that there are healthy stars and febrile red giants, white dwarfs and neutron stars, planets ans asteroids. I know everything about the sun and moon, about the evolution of life on earth, about the Pharaohs and the Chinese dynasties, the countries of the world and their peoples as presently constituted, not to mention all the studying I've done on plants and animals, canals and lakes, rivers and mountain passes. Without even a pause for thought I can tell you the names of several hundred cities, I can tell you the names of nearly all the countries in the world, and I know the approximate populations of every one. I have a knowledge of the historical background of the different cultures, their religion and mythology, and to a certain extent also the history of their languages, in particular etymological relationships, especially within the Indo-European family of languages, but I can certainly reel off a goodly number of expressions from the Semitic language too, and the same from Chinese and Japanese, not to mention all the topographical and personal names I know. In addition, I'm acquainted with several hundred individuals personally, and just from my own small country I could, at the drop of a hat, supply you with several thousand names of loving fellow countrymen whom I know something about - fairly extensive biographical knowledge in some cases. And I needn't confine myself to Norwegians, we're living more and more in a global village, and soon the village square will cover the entire galaxy. On another level, there are all the people I'm genuinely fond of, although it isn't just people one gets attached to, but places as well: just think of the all the places I know like the back of my hand, and where I can tell if someone's gone chopped down a bush or moved a stone. Then there are books, especially all those that have taught me so much about the biosphere and outer space, but also literary works, and through them all the imaginary people whose lives I've come to know and who, at times, have meant a great deal to me. And then I couldn't live without music, and I'm very eclectic, everything from folk music and Renaissance music to Schonberg and Penderecki, but I have to admit, and this has a bearing on the very perspective we're trying to gain, I have to admit to having a particular penchant for romantic music, and this, don't forget, can also be found amongst the works of Bach and Gluck, not to mention Albinoni. But romantic music has existed in every age, and even Plato warned against it because he believed that melancholy could actually weaken the state, and it's patently clear when you get to Puccini and Mahler that music has become a direct expression of what I'm trying to get you to comprehend, that life is too short and that the way human beings are fashioned means they must take leave of far too much. If you've heard Mahler's Abschied from Das Lied von the Erde you'll know what I mean. Hopefully you'll have understood that it's the farewell itself I'm referring to, the actual leave- taking, and that this takes place in the self-same organ where everything I'm saying goodbye to is stored.”