Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.