“And tell Broun I’m sorry.”

I will love you if you don't marry me. I will love you if you marry someone else – and I will love you if you never marry at all, and spend your years wishing you had married me after all. That is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.

“Who likes Fourteen Fifteen?” “ME!!!”

“Demani. Primary. Whatever happens here, please know how important you are to me. Please know that way before anyone else thinks about what we do as history, way before anyone else is talking about us, I already think of you as…”

“Sunrise, parabellum.”

“I only seek enough power to remove my own shackles.”

I HATE LEM KING.

the misaligned centre of you, the misaligned centre of me

“The idea of you and Baru against the world, even against that part of the world which you pretend to love to serve, will always fill you with longing.”

Hella’s loyalty is a tremendous and unreliable asset; cultivate it actively.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, she thought in a rush, closed her eyes, held out her hands and thought: Elliot Baranski. A slam of a moment. A boy’s wrist: narrow, brown. Dirt in a fingernail. The frayed edge of a jacket. She was back again, breathless.

“Tau?” he said, in bemusement. “But…” “But what? But I’m too kind to tell the truth? But I’m too gentle to lay it out in public? But I’m too soft to do this to you?”

She moves, Baru realizes, a little like Ulyu Xe, with that same unity of purpose. But where Xe is tranquil and reactive, Tain Hu prowls. She pounces. She has the smug mastery of a large cat.

I NEED YOU. YOU CAN KEEP ME ON THIS EARTH. BE VIGILANT. I LOVE YOU.

“People like a good story, and good stories need mythical heroes and devious villains. But live long as me, and you’ll learn there ain’t none: no heroes, no villains. It’s just people.”

“Maybe we’ll discover something wonderful while we’re lost.”

“I am a good bounty hunter, and one day I will rule the stars.”

“So you should be asking yourself, what makes a thing like that afraid? What makes a thing like ME afraid?”

“We could only have ever made them look like us.”

TEN: I love you so much. NINE: You said to call you Ten. Who are you? Why does it take so long? I don’t understand what is going on. I don’t know who I am or where I am. I’m all by myself. Who are you? I love you too.

Hello. I hope somebody is listening.

“I’m living on borrowed time. Keep up their fight.”

“This might sound stupid but I think he was my best friend. Like the other half of me. I’m so scared something might have happened to him when he went back. I miss him so much sometimes I look at windows and I want to just walk right through them - press myself through the glass.”

these are the six guiding conditions and behaviors that effectively built this field: 1. the sun 2. the earth 3. humankind’s appreciation of beauty 4. humankind’s desire for order 5. humankind’s avarice 6. humankind’s disunity

“It’s funny, Primary. It’s been a month since we lost connection. And when I finally heard your voice again, my heart (well, the closest thing I have to one, anyway)... it didn’t swell, so much as it found a stable rhythm it had forgotten.”

You ever feel like you’re blundering ceaselessly through the dark?

“Form leads function. Think of – think of what this form could do.” “Yeah. I have. I've thought about it a lot.”

That’s also really important, we’re not here to sell milk. I mean we are here to sell milk, but we’re not here to sell milk.

“I’m not the one you want to shoot.” “If you’re Anaander Mianaai,” I said, “then I want to shoot you.”

“You’re better than what you did. And you’re better than what you think of yourself. So, get over it.”

“Do not make a joke of my faith, Clementine Kesh.”

“You didn’t come here to investigate some tower. You came here to find your Lord. The Undying Fire. King-God of the Order of the Eternal Princes. Samothes Himself. But I am sorry to say, you will not find him here. All you will find, Hadrian, is the story of how he died.”

I kinda look at the big long life ahead of me that stretches out forever and disappears. And I get scared. And I think, “this can’t be Heaven if I’m getting scared, right?” And then I think, “maybe I am in Heaven, and Heaven is scary.”

She does a little head tilt nod towards you, Hella, when you describe killing her, and smiles just a bit. “She did a very good job.”

To go to the music shop, to run my hand along the keys and strings. To find time when there isn’t any. To fill a glass bottle with dyed sand and laugh at the shapes and the colors. To ride the great big Summers Wheel and point to my house and say “there it is, that is my house!”

“You were shouting the way that people who know the truth shout.”

“Do not make a joke of my faith, Clementine Kesh.”

YEAAAGHHH! ONCE THE LIGHT IS ON IN THE UNIVERSE -- IT WILL NEVER GO OUT!

‘I can’t figure out how a discussion about gravity’s going to help anything, Madeleine. Let’s just fall into each other’s worlds.’ ‘You go ahead and fall. I’ll wait.’ There was a brief pause then Elliot wrote again. ‘Okay, that hurt. You win. Talk about gravity.’

In the end it’s only ever been one step, and then the next.

I always knew the world moves on I just didn’t know it would go without me

Million is a delight. I simply must show her to the whole universe.

If anyone should know the dangers of an open mind, it is the boy king.

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

I always knew the world moves on I just didn’t know it would go without me

I know that Crystal Palace is a heartless machine, Primary, but you know what? Tell it to go fuck itself. Tell everybody else that I'm sorry.

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.

I couldn’t quite believe how much I seriously loved Aled Last, even if it wasn’t in the ideal way that would make it socially acceptable for us to live together until we die.