It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past." "It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.

Sometimes we do not hear the Whisperer even at her loudest because she speaks in our own voice, the one we most often discount.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that robes were street clothes once... and still are, in a lot of places. And halos are to that fierce air of innocence what speech balloons in comics are to the sound of the voice itself. Shorthand. But most people just see an old symbol and don't bother looking behind it for the meaning. Sainthood starts to look old-fashioned, unattainable... even repellent. Actually, you can see it all around, once you learn to spot it.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.