The Resistance

Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all of it, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see into his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing. And now, sometimes, when it was just the two of them, when he smelt her hair, caught her eye, he felt as though he knew all there was to know about everything, as though they knew the secret of life. A secret far more powerful than Longevity, far more long-lasting.

You see, what I want is life. A real life, full of moments of joy, of anguish, of irritation, of fun. A life with an end point, which makes each second important. A life that is full of love, that doesn't cause suffering and pain.

Danger manifests itself in many ways, Peter. Brilliance of mind can be as dangerous as a loaded weapon.

Many people lost their lives fighting for these rights - to vote, to be free, to work, to be able to get on the same bus as someone considered their superior. And it was the next generations who embedded these changes, who came to view women as equals to men, who came to understand that skin colour is of no relevance. Young people are the future. Without them, the world stands still.

The further away from something we are, the more we tend to mistrust it, Peter. we dislike the unknown, we reject anything alien to us: people with views that contradict ours, societies that are run along very different lines.

You mustn't let your emotions get the better of you. There is a great deal to be angry about, but anger doesn't change things.

You will choose your path, or perhaps it will choose you.

They let you down, you let them down, then they're your best friend, until next time.

Real love, well, it means sacrifice. It means thinking of the other person's needs before your own.

Science teaches us that we are rarely right. The whole discipline of science is aimed at proving ourselves wrong, isn't it?

I rather enjoy being contradicted. It forces me to think harder.

We always leave a trail, Jude, whether we wish to or not.

The only tests worth passing are the ones we set ourselves.

HELPING ME You think mr think I was infertile having to tell Anna she... that she..

The trouble with science geeks, as you call them, is that hey put discovery before anything else. It was a science geek who discovered the atom bomb. He didn't intend to cause mass murder, but he did nonetheless.

Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.

All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.

Forever isn't important-it's now that counts. Doing the right thing.

Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.

More question. You know that curiosity killed the cat?

Fame, infamy, they're of the same family.

You are on the side of angels. But even angels fall, sometimes. We all make mistakes; without them we would learn nothing.