Sometimes you have to go somewhere else to appreciate what we have here.

It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

Haven't you heard about me?" he said, with a tight smile. "I'm really a very dangerous person." And he did look dangerous until he said, "Look, could you watch Dog for me while I'm gone? I can't take him where I'm going.

Admit nothing - that was his first rule. Appeal to logic - second rule. Delay the inevitable - third rule.

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.

As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.

The human mind had a remarkable ability both to discount what it sees and make reality conform to expectation.