"...and I realized that if I only get to live one life, then I'm glad it's been this one."

"Do we deserve any of it? To live? To be loved? It's a gift, Juno. Don't you see that? You don't earn it or lose it."

"So, being born, being dragged out into the cold, into the searing lights and all the noise must feel like dying-like their whole world disappearing along with every single thing they ever knew. Maybe dying is like that too. None of us know what's out there. But we've experienced something a little like it already. Being born was the best thing that ever happened to us. The world is bigger and more beautiful than we ever could have imagined, and on the other side of it there were people we'd never met who already love us. They've been excited. They've been waiting."

"What would you do, Astrid, with this day, if you could do anything at all?"