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Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

We thought we knew everything about him. But that's not how life is. When all's said and done, we can never truly know one another.

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die?

Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

That's how we're connected: through the hurt we inflict on one another.

Many years ago there lived a man called Laurids Madsen who went up to heaven and came down again thanks to his boots.

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down.

She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

From now on, consider yourself a con artist.

Freedom had a thousand faces. But so did crime. The thought of what a man might do made me dizzy.

Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down.

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

As long as our voiced were in harmony, it didn't matter that our accents were at war.

No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

The constant bombardment and the randomness with which death scythed us down had exhausted us...

Hope can be like a plant that sprouts and grows and keeps people alive. But it can also be a wound that refuses to heal.

But he didnt want to be thought of as a fool. To walk around the town fully dressed and yet appear naked to the world was a shame he couldn't bear.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

We don't sail because the sea is there. We sail because there's a harbour. We don't start by heading for distant shores. We seek protection first.

But I could feel resentment inside me, and I knew it would keep growing until it changed into something far more dangerous.

What was he thinking about? He was old, but he hasn't found peace.

Had he realized that a long life didn't automatically bestow wisdom?

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

An unused conscience is no conscience at all.

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

Though I had no respect for Jack Lewis, I respected the hole in his chest. He was dying, and you owe the dying your attention.

He wasn't physically impotent. So the impotence must lie in his soul. Finding oblivion in a moment's ecstasy was all he could manage.

Perhaps the greatest thing you can achieve is to love without demanding anything in return.

Loss was a night that never ended.

You died in the end, but you fought first.

Yes, he was a rock she could cling to. But he was also a rock she could smash herself to pieces against.

That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.

Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.